Empty Metal

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Empty Metal

2018

1h 23m

Mystery & Thriller

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83%

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6 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

Privacy is a fleeting but precious commodity in a world filled with mass surveillance and pervasive policing.

Catey Sullivan

Chicago Reader

Sweitzer and Khalil's style is visceral-spoken language isn't the priority so much as presenting a gut-punch depiction of a world both enraged and exhausted.

Feb 11, 2020

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

An experiment well suited to our crazy-making times.

Dec 6, 2019

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Carson Lund

Slant Magazine

Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer have fashioned a topical lightning rod with Empty Metal, though not in a manner that suggests willful provocation.

Rated: 3/4

Dec 4, 2019

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Adina Glickstein

Hyperallergic

It is so aggressively non-totalizing that it stops itself from fully exploring the boldness of its potential claims, settling, instead, for a model of "twitchy, agitated interpassivity."

Mar 2, 2020

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Laura Jacobs

Film Threat

Khalil and Sweitzer's film is unique, but it remains unclear if it has the power and resonance behind it to take their points outside of the arthouse audience.

Rated: 7/10

Jan 13, 2020

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Jon Dieringer

Screen Slate

Empty Metal attacks big questions with a heavy aesthetic arsenal.

Dec 5, 2019

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Synopsis

Privacy is a fleeting but precious commodity in a world filled with mass surveillance and pervasive policing.

Director: Adam Shingwak Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
Producer: Alexandra Lazarowich, Tina Piccari
Screenwriter: Adam Shingwak Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer
Production Co: Steady Orbits
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2020
Runtime: 1h 23m

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