Old Joy
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User Score
5.8
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 49 Ratings
- Summary: Old Joy is the story of two old friends, Kurt (Oldham) and Mark (London), who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. (Kino International)
- Director: Kelly Reichardt
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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100It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect emotional pitch.
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80A superb exercise in economical filmmaking. Not only from a financial standpoint, as the film was shot in HD and on-location in gorgeous Portland, Oregon…but the story here is so subtle and well drawn, if you blink you might miss it.
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50Features some of the year's most beautiful scenery and two of its most wooden characters.
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25You must lead a dull life if it would be enlivened by 76 minutes' worth of Old Joy.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 26
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Mixed: 0 out of 26
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Negative: 15 out of 26
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AshutoshR.9
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MichaelG.8This film moves slowly, but it stayed with me. I woke up wondering how the characters were doing.
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ScottS.3
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WillN.3Pace is so slow that I could have been real time.
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