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90Beeswax, at first glance a modest, ragged slice of contemporary life, turns out to be a remarkably subtle, even elegant movie.
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83Bujalski's funny, diverting character piece has a lived-in quality that's no small achievement.
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75As Mark Twain didn't say, reports of the death of mumblecore are greatly exaggerated. As proof, I offer Andrew Bujalski's wise and wondrous Beeswax.
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75Bujalski has a serious talent for finding resonance in the mundane.
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75It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski's movies aren't movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He's the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
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70Oddly engaging and has me wishing I could spend a week observing Jeannie, Lauren, and Merrill...you know, without a camera as a mediator.
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70This warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie snuck up on me, in the best possible way.
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70Beeswax exemplifies post-mumble maturity. The movie is not only semi-documentary, but also casually thoughtful (or at least self-reflexive)--working with friends is what Bujalski does in creating his own particular Storyville.
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70Beeswax has a rhythmic quality, and it eschews conventional plotting for sharp observation of human strengths and foibles.
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67While it initially feels like a known quantity (although mentioning the "M"-word – mumblecore – is both pointless and distracting), Beeswax proves to be much more than simply another extreme close-up of late-twentysomething naifs trying to gather enough energy to flail about, emotionally or otherwise.
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67There are fine, fresh observational moments, but the film is much ado about not so much.
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60Fans of Andrew Bujalski's previous mumblecore movies are the likeliest audience for his latest, a modest, slice-of-life indie that doesn't quite live up to his earlier efforts.
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This is another rough-edged, noodling affair in which genial but frustratingly self-absorbed twenty- and thirty-somethings chatter on and on about their lives, loves and finances.
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50Beeswax, the third feature from American indie auteur Andrew Bujalski ("Funny Ha Ha," "Mutual Appreciation"), offers yet another low-key take on twentysomethings finding their way.
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charles8A seemingly mundane story that is touching, compelling and, above all, masterfully realistic. The twins are very appealing.