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Ham on Rye

2019

Tyler Taormina

Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Aaron Schwartz, Audrey Boos ...

5.5

190

Comedy. Drama A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.

	Author	Review
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"[Taormina achieves some] startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant."	POS
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"[It] challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony (...) The elegance and control of 'Ham on Rye's aesthetic is breathtaking (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A puzzling but artful look at teenage alienation (...) Quiet and carefully made but cryptic, it relies on the viewer to complete its metaphors"	NEU
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"'Ham on Rye' will frustrate literal-minded audiences, but it’s a work of gentle, genuine American surrealism (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ryan Swen The Film Stage	"[It] avoids many of the generic pitfalls [of the genre] (...) [It] captures a distinctive, unpredictable sense of brokenness and hope"	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"'Ham on Rye' is a sensorial experience, meddling the nostalgic vintage look and melancholic mood of the ferociously incoming adulthood"	POS
United States	Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"A stylish twist on the end-of-high-school dramedy (...) [it] offers the ethereal echoes of 'The Virgin Suicides' (...) While the narrative hardly goes into the fully unhinged direction it teases, it’s pleasantly askew"	POS

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