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American Folk

2017

David Heinz

Joe Purdy, Amber Rubarth, Krisha Fairchild, David Fine ...

6.0

106

Drama. Musical Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Understatedly moving, with lots of good music (...) [A] pleasing indie (...) Heinz’s script wisely avoids melodrama and preachiness"	POS
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] takes a modest but effective approach to that national tragedy [9/11] (...) The film evolves into an unconventional road movie that turns out to be quietly affecting."	POS
United States	Christopher Kompanek The Washington Post	"The songs lend the film an emotional resonance that the forced dialogue often struggles to achieve (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Brent McKnight Seattle Times	"The film has a certain charm, and fans of folk music should be more than happy (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"If there was a good movie in here (...) it got buried the minute Heinz decided to build it around a couple of attractive but rather generic young white folks (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"The songs are lovely, and the first-time actors give performances that grow warmer as the film progresses"	POS

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