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- MAX
- Jun 13, 2023
- MAX
- Jun 13, 2023
Summary Female filmmakers are mentored by Kumail Nanjiani, Gina Prince-Bythewood and executive producer Issa Rae in this reboot of the Project Greenlight series.
- MAX
- Jun 13, 2023
- MAX
- Jun 13, 2023
Project Greenlight (2023)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jun 13, 2023
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Summary Female filmmakers are mentored by Kumail Nanjiani, Gina Prince-Bythewood and executive producer Issa Rae in this reboot of the Project Greenlight series.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
62
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Project Greenlight’s newfound insistence that this be a supportive, nontoxic workplace means that all tensions and frustrations are buried six feet deep, and the season vibrates with the repressed energy of a hundred people trying to conceal their emotions. ... There’s the unmistakable sensation of a balloon deflating by the end of the season, created by an underwhelming movie and a young director who’s meant to be heroic but instead comes off as checked out and uninsightful. This too is compelling.
The more benign parts of the process—casting, location scouting—are as interesting as ever. But they are eventually swallowed up by the higher drama, by Project Greenlight’s chilling documentation of a good enough idea gone bad.
Rae and her team are optimistic that they can improve upon past incarnations of the show, and yet it remains the same as it ever was, for good or for ill.
It looks like PG:ANG will start lukewarm and only get hotter as things progress.
Unlike previous seasons, this Project Greenlight hits its stride as Gray Matter hits production, specifically with the butting of heads between the Project Greenlight and Gray Matter crews. .... It’s incredibly illuminating and completely entertaining in ways that the first half of the season fails to be.
It makes for an irritating watch, bogged down by heavy-handed and repetitive edits that frame the most receptive (and least seasoned) filmmaker as the fall woman for Hollywood’s habitual inability to mentor, communicate, or properly place blame.
What’s that Paul McCartney quote, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarians”? Yeah, Project Greenlight: A New Generation feels like that.
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