Chain Camera
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  • Summary: Ten students at John Marshall High School in Los Angeles were given video cameras to film their lives. There were no limitations on what they could shoot. After one week, the cameras were given to ten new students, who filmed their lives for a week, then handed the cameras on. Like chain letters, these cameras were passed from student to student for an entire year. (FilmNoir Post Productions)… Collapse

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    90
    By turns playful, harrowing, intensely moving, and uproariously funny, Chain Camera cuts away all documentary artifice and goes straight to the source, allowing these kids to reveal themselves with the utmost directness and candor.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    Hilarious, unnerving and remarkably intimate portrait of multiethnic adolescent life that lends vigorous new meaning to the term "teen movie."
  3. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    80
    The results are far more real than MTV's The Real World.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    50
    Absorbing in places, but considering the large and diverse pool the filmmakers had to draw from, it's a surprisingly repetitive and predictable collection of big-city sagas.

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