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- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
Summary The American Meme follows the journeys of Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky, Brittany Furlan and Kirill Bichutsky, as they hustle to create empires out of their online footprints.
Directed By: Bert Marcus
Written By: Bert Marcus
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 38 m
The American Meme
60
User Score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Summary The American Meme follows the journeys of Paris Hilton, Josh Ostrovsky, Brittany Furlan and Kirill Bichutsky, as they hustle to create empires out of their online footprints.
Directed By: Bert Marcus
Written By: Bert Marcus
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
60
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The American Meme works best when it reveals the subtle pain behind much of the manufactured fantasy.
What is fascinating, and valuable, about The American Meme is its ability to reveal the desperation, loneliness, and sheer Sisyphean tedium of ceaselessly chasing what will most likely end up being an ever-diminishing share of the online-attention economy.
The American Meme is a film I very much recommend, since it’s both highly entertaining and an essential snapshot of the voyeuristic parasitic American fishbowl.
The American Meme traces this democratized/Americanized form of “celebrity” back to its origins and profiles some of the web’s more notorious creations in a generally entertaining and somewhat illuminating account of recent history.
The American Meme can be fun, even informative, but there’s a bigger story here, and Marcus mostly fails to tell it.
It’s vital in the sense that there aren’t enough third-party chronicles of this undeniably potent force in the online world, but it’s sloppy in how safe it feels — it’s easy to imagine the stars agreeing to speak so long as certain topics were either breezed over or avoided entirely.
The American Meme is a polemic as shallow and artificial as it thinks its subjects are.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable
Based on 4 User Ratings
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Production Company
Bert Marcus Productions
Release Date Dec 7, 2018
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Tagline Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of fame.
