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Radiant City
Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    As a one-time suburbanite now living happily in Manhattan, I can attest that Radiant City tells it like it is. The film ends with a surprise that you won't see coming and I won't spoil.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    75
    Jim Brown and Gary Burns hang a powerful antisuburban diatribe in the form of statistics, expert opinions and pictures worth a thousand words on the experiences of the Moss family.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    70
    Enlightening and disturbingly funny.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    70
    The cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin's eerie, sometimes monumental images italicize the experts' statements, making the suburbs seem like an asphalt-and-Sheetrock dreamscape where democracy goes to die.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ken Eisner
    70
    In the end, helmers have some nifty tricks up their verite sleeves.
  6. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    33
    The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off. If anything, the movie's observations about the corrupting social influence of cluttered mall spaces get undercut by the fact that Burns and Brown feel the need to INVENT characters to prove their truth.
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