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- 2020
- Not Rated
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
Summary In New York City, six strangers’ lives intersect in a modern tale of ordinary people struggling to find help, hope and love. As the unlikely group comes together, they discover that liberation and triumph lie in each other’s hands.
Directed By: Lone Scherfig
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
- 2020
- Not Rated
- Vertical Entertainment
- 1 h 52 m
The Kindness of Strangers
32
5.5
Where to Watch
Summary In New York City, six strangers’ lives intersect in a modern tale of ordinary people struggling to find help, hope and love. As the unlikely group comes together, they discover that liberation and triumph lie in each other’s hands.
Directed By: Lone Scherfig
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
32
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
32
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
55% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
It doesn’t wholly come off, with back stories too thinly developed, pathos and cruelty blending with the whimsy of a New York con.
While the movie works to depict how kindness breeds kindness, even in the cruelest of environments, it spends much of the time watching its motley collection of lost souls chase their own tails.
Too much of the kindness in “Strangers” feels sentimentally story-dictated rather than born of profound human observation, leaving you with mild, woolly good feeling but little to contemplate or chew on.
Scherfig’s latest effort pursues something naively magical, only to end up with a mélange of miscalculated, cheap sentiments.
Despite its feel-good title, The Kindness of Strangers is a rather bleak movie, one so tied to the miseries of its characters that it’s difficult to see the point of it at all.
As a supposed snapshot of life in the unaccommodating big city, and of the humane gestures that can soften that harshness, it feels utterly synthetic, not to mention a romantically "European" view of New York that's sheer nonsense.
In spite of it all, the cast members do themselves justice for the most and I couldn’t help but be charmed by Riseborough’s wide-eyed decency as she hosts her frequent “forgiveness” meetings–not to mention be seduced by Nighy’s signature suave detachment.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 4 User Ratings
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Based on 4 User Ratings
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Production Company
HanWay Films,
Ingenious Media,
Apollo Media,
Entertainment One,
Creative Alliance,
Strada Films,
Film i Väst,
Unlimited Stories,
Nadcon Film,
D'Artagnan SAS,
ARTE,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR),
Arte France Cinéma,
Det Danske Filminstitut,
Téléfilm Canada,
Danmarks Radio (DR),
Ontario Creates,
Copenhagen Film Fund,
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI),
Nordisk Film & TV-Fond
Release Date Feb 14, 2020
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website
http://www.cetera.co.jp/NY/
Awards
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
The Joey Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Nomination
