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Advantageous
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In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter Jules do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Actors:
Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle, Samantha Kim, Troi Zee, Olivia Horton, Jennifer Ikeda, Mercedes Griffeth, Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris, ...»
Director:
Jennifer Phang
Country:
United States
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Eye for Film
February 04, 2015 As with the best science fiction, the technology of the future is used to explore the human condition of the present.
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The Young Folks
July 22, 2015 ...one of the best science-fiction films of this past year and further proof that female directors know how to deliver on genre films.
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Slant Magazine
June 24, 2015 The dialogue is so disaffected it's as if humans were replicants even before going through the aforementioned twin-making procedure.
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Entertainment Weekly
June 25, 2015 Unfortunately, the stilted script and portentous direction make Advantageous, a film written and directed by Asian-American women, a missed opportunity.
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Hollywood Reporter
June 23, 2015 It's not hard to imagine it becoming cult viewing in places like Berkeley, the director's city of birth, or any college town or urban area with the right critical density of literature, film and women's studies majors who sometimes read Wired.
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New York Daily News
June 24, 2015 You've seen enough movies to know it won't go as planned, but director Jennifer Phang's low-budget film is extraordinary in the sly way it dishes out the details.
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Mark Leeper's Reviews
July 14, 2015 ADVANTAGEOUS is a science fiction film with a much higher budget for art direction than it has for special effects.
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AV Club
June 25, 2015 As in a lot of good sci-fi, the movie is set in a particular world, but driven by the characters that inhabit it.
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New York Times
June 25, 2015 A picture emerges that at times suggests a strange if alluring mash-up of "Stella Dallas" and Michel Foucault, with a smidgen of Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville" and a hint of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale."
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San Francisco Chronicle
June 25, 2015 Achieves much on a relatively meager budget (it has an impressive futuristic visual design), and the last half hour is so irresistibly creepy that it's sure to invoke discussion after the screening.
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The Dissolve
June 24, 2015 Advantageous makes a superb showcase for Kim, a hugely underrated and underutilized talent.
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Spirituality and Practice
January 22, 2016 A thought-provoking sci-fi drama about parenting, education, the commodification of women's bodies, and female unemployment.
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