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  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 22 m

Summary Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat--as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them--to explore the history of Baltimore. "There's never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it's always been ...

  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2017
  • The Cinema Guild
  • 1 h 22 m

Rat Film

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
83
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat--as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them--to explore the history of Baltimore. "There's never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it's always been ...

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
83
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
83
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Oct 12, 2017
There’s a thrilling friction between the smoothly assembled pieces of Anthony’s narrative, and often sparks.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 14, 2017
Equal parts disturbing and humorous, informative and bizarre, Rat Film is a brilliantly imaginative and formally experimental essay on how Baltimore has dealt with its rat problem and manipulated its black population.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
91
Mar 9, 2017
Rat Film stalks between being repellent, riveting, and darkly humorous.
By Daniel Schindel FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 21, 2017
Rat Film is most compelling when it moves out of the history of Baltimore's civic-planning and pest-control schemes and settles on its denizens, both human and rodent.
By John Semley FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 2, 2017
[Anthony] turns a concluding sequence of civic pride and good cheer into a brilliantly light-hearted fantasy of grave import, a radical political utopia conjured with a deft artistic flourish. It’s one of the most extraordinary, visionary inspirations in the recent cinema.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 14, 2017
What exactly does it all mean? I’m not sure, but it does make for a disturbing and occasionally absorbing watch.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 11, 2017
Inherent to director Theo Anthony's misappropriation of the essay form is a conflicting account of precisely which history his documentary seeks to investigate.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.3
56% Positive
5 Ratings
11% Mixed
1 Rating
33% Negative
3 Ratings

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56% Positive
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11% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Production Company Memory
Release Date Sep 15, 2017
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Website https://memory.is/rat-film
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Awards

Sheffield International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations

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