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  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
Subject

Summary In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding th...

  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2023
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Subject

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? Subject reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen. Featuring the protagonists of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square, as well as the filmmakers of Minding th...

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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83
Nov 1, 2023
Hall and Tiexiera create something incredibly special with Subject. The subject matter (pun totally intended) yields a documentary that isn’t against the documentary world, but wants audiences to simply question what they’re watching
By Kristen Lopez FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 6, 2023
A documentary dork’s delight, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall’s Subject is one of those films about which my biggest lament is that it could have been five times as long — with the caveat that while I would be down for a 10-part series on documentary ethics, this 96-minute intro will be a thoroughly effective conversation starter.
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 1, 2023
Subject acknowledges sensitivities are shifting but also pointedly makes clear, for the damaged souls here, they didn’t change quick enough.
By Ian Freer FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 1, 2023
The question of who gets to tell stories is discussed (spoiler: mostly white men, until recently), and for a 97-minute film, Subject squeezes in a lot of ethical biggies.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 3, 2023
Subject includes harrowing stories while leading voices in the documentary sphere offer their insights. It’s not a film out for blood, which becomes a blessing and a curse for its filmmakers.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 6, 2023
It’s easy to form an opinion about the subject of a great many docs, but unsettling to realize how little we know about how they were treated.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 2, 2023
Subject is at its clearest when interrogating the material conditions of documentary filmmaking, as during a segment about whether the subjects of nonfiction films have the right to be paid for their participation; it feels slipperier when glossing issues of diversity and representation.
By Calum Marsh FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lady & Bird Films, Time Studios
Release Date Nov 3, 2023
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Awards

Thin Line Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Calgary International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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