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  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Prim and proper Maria Barbizan (Susanne Wuest) unceremoniously walks away from her boring job, her inept husband, and her obnoxious daughter. Moments later, she is swept up in a bizarre contest alongside a handful of idiosyncratic characters, all competing for the chance to win true enlightenment… and one slightly used habanero-orange co...

Written By: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Rob Benvie

  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2022
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 29 m

Stanleyville

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary Prim and proper Maria Barbizan (Susanne Wuest) unceremoniously walks away from her boring job, her inept husband, and her obnoxious daughter. Moments later, she is swept up in a bizarre contest alongside a handful of idiosyncratic characters, all competing for the chance to win true enlightenment… and one slightly used habanero-orange co...

Written By: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Rob Benvie

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Negative
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70
Apr 20, 2022
With a firm commitment to its alluringly offbeat premise and a grounding lead performance from Susanne Wuest, this indie oddity is an enjoyable descent into the absurd despite an apparent lack of interest in answering most of the questions it raises.
By Michael Nordine FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 21, 2022
The experience is as much about the eye of the beholder for the audience as the game is for its contestants. You get back what you put in. I got entertainment. Maybe you’ll get more (or less).
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 20, 2022
If Stanleyville initially assumes the posture of an Off-Off-Broadway adaptation of “Dogtooth” — one happy to revel in half-baked ideas and hand-me-down humor — its commitment to entropy randomness gradually coheres into an identity of its own.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 20, 2022
An under 90-minute runtime does the film a massive favor, but Stanleyville is still an overextended last-person-standing confrontation of life’s ultimate acceptance that fulfillment may not ever be achievable.
By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW
58
May 5, 2022
McCabe-Loko substitutes erratic behaviour and raised voices for tension. But Stanleyville does seem to have something to say. Just because I cannot decipher any significant meaning doesn't mean you won't. Then again, in the words of someone wiser than me, some films are merely meant to be experienced. That could be the case with Stanleyville. I only wish the experience was a bit more enjoyable.
By Thom Ernst FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 21, 2022
The contest intentionally lacks meaningful rewards, an obvious metaphor for life’s arbitrary stakes. But as cinema, the lack of purpose becomes a test of patience.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
30
Apr 21, 2022
What starts out as a screwball “Squid Game” ultimately yields a paltry payoff in the case of “Stanleyville,” a self-consciously quirky social satire that is content to coast on its waning surface weirdness.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Anthropoid, Ontario, Memory, Scythia Films
Release Date Apr 22, 2022
Duration 1 h 29 m
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Tagline Discover the True You That Cowers Inside the You You
Website https://www.stanleyvillefilm.com/
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Awards

Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination

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