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Feels Good Man

2020

Arthur Jones

Documentary, Self: Matt Furie

7.0

652

Documentary When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America’s cultural divide.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"[A] sharp, absorbing doc (...) [Its] relevance and astuteness should net it across-the-board appeal.	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[On its surface] is the sympathetic portrait of a man who created a monster (...) But underneath the lucid digital etymology that Jones energetically glues together (...) is a documentary so much bigger than Matt Furie that it threatens to swallow him whole."	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"The movie is far bigger than Pepe, unveiling itself to be a vital document of our new language of meme culture.	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is terrific at building up to its argument (...) But buying Pepe as misunderstood and buying Pepe as a character destined for redemption are two different things, and it's the argument after the buildup where 'Feels Good Man' stopped feeling persuasive for me"	NEU
United States	Angie Han Mashable	"[It] may not be able to explain everything about these trying times. But Feels Good Man finds the little cartoon amphibian at the crossroads of a whole lot of it."	POS
United States	Abby Olcese SlashFilm	"A fascinating dive into a subculture and how one guy was inadvertently caught up in it."	POS
United States	Matt Patches Polygon	"The most important political film of 2020 is about a meme"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Vibrant cartoon sequences give the movie a refreshing rhythm and visual texture (...) At its best, the movie is a vertiginous, head-slapping examination of the tangible, unpredictable consequences of making art"	POS

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