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We Met in Virtual Reality

2022

Joe Hunting

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5.4

Documentary Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A tender, affecting documentary about love, friendship and people finding a place where they can be themselves"	POS
United States	Juan Barquin The Film Stage	"We Met In Virtual Reality then is a perfect showcase of how VRChat (and the Internet at large) allows users to transcend the boundaries and limitations of reality to form meaningful connections"	POS
	David Katz Cineuropa	"Whilst it provides an insight into the odd rituals and participants of this world, you still never quite feel you’re getting the full story"	NEU
United States	Robert Daniels rogerebert.com	"One of Hunting's major triumphs is in giving space, relying on a minimal amount of cuts, to allow for his subjects’ experiences to breathe"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Come for the gimmick, stay for the poignance of Joe Hunting’s 'We Met in Virtual Reality', a documentary that starts out odd and ends up oddly sweet."	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson Polygon	"A movie meant to introduce viewers to the real emotions people bring to their escapist fantasy worlds. But for most viewers, it's more likely to be a confusing, exhilarating, context-free introduction to the fantasy world itself"	NEU
Canada	Kurt Halfyard Screen Anarchy	"The optimism of 'We Met In Virtual Reality' is absorbing and infectious. For all its bleeding-edge tech, and murky event horizon, the film is an authentic feel-good film of our current pandemic moment"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"'We Met in Virtual Reality' starts out disorienting, but walks us through the weirdness and ends up finding comforting familiarities in what’s for most of us a wildly unfamiliar setting. It’s a compelling, unusual documentary"	POS
United States	Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"The character designs and backdrops are amazingly imaginative; and though the movements and rendering are often glitchy, that only adds to the charm of the residents’ casual conversations"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"At times, 'We Met in Virtual Reality' (...) feels like a feature-length infomercial for this relatively new means of no-contact connection"	NEU
United States	Carlos Aguilar rogerebert.com	"This fascinating ode to touchless connection proves beyond doubt that the intense emotions born in the skin of their avatars transcend into their flesh-and-blood hearts (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU

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