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American Woman

2019

Hong Chau, Ellen Burstyn, David Cubitt, John Gallagher Jr. ...

Drama Adept at living off the grid ever since she masterminded an act of violence against the American government, 25-year-old former radical Jenny Shimada (Hong Chau) agrees to take care of three fugitives who are on the run. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a wealthy newspaper magnate (Sarah Gadon), has become a national celebrity for embracing her captors’ ideology and joining their revolutionary cell.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[It] tries to give us a fresh angle on a familiar subject, but the film is listless and desultory. It sketches in the scuzzy power dynamics of these characters but fails, in most cases, to dramatize what made them tick"	NEU
United States	Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"Shallow characters in a middling, fact-based fiction (...) For a while, at least, the characters might seem enigmatic rather than underdeveloped."	NEU
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"The movie unfolds in a quiet parade of deft dialogue and slowly deepening characters (...) It’s all smart and sharply observed."	POS
United States	Kimber Myers The Playlist	"'American Woman' doesn’t offer much in terms of understanding anyone or expressing much feeling"	NEG

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