Everything Strange and New

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Everything Strange and New

2009

1h 24m

Drama

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Ordinary people longing for certainty in uncertain times.

Diego Semerene

Slant Magazine

The film does something quite amazing in allowing the kind of bottled-up emotional dynamic that heterosexual masculinity requires to finally express itself in speech.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 2, 2011

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

In any case, this intriguing, sometimes frustrating, in some ways amateurish movie is a work of vaulting artistic ambition.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 24, 2011

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Brian Miller

Village Voice

The film conveys the intimate sense of reading a diary and provides no more consolation than we feel in writing in our own.

Feb 22, 2011

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

"Poet of the Oakland flatlands" Frazer Bradshaw captures a landscape and a people who are at times as much prisoners as residents.

Jun 18, 2020

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Beverly Berning

culturevulture.net

Frazer Bradshaw's debut feature reeks of a need to do something grand, and its attempt to reach high art makes its failure that much more obvious.

Dec 6, 2009

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Not worth your time.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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This was extremely boring. I get that the movie is about ordinary lower-middle class people being overwhelmed by life and money, but it's just really hard to follow. The shots are nothing spectacular and the thematic music is catchy but ineffectively used.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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A semi-experimental symphony to the 21st-century man, director Frazer Bradshaw's "Everything Strange and New" assembles snapshots of a carpenter's existence, connected via introspective monologues and cacophonous swells of string music. Helmer's feature debut provides a first glimpse at what post-recession independent cinema could look like, offering a revisionist, glass-half-empty take on the American Dream. This is a film worthy of discussion and contemplation, though in the end Bradshaw's effort is just a bit too heavy handed to be recommendable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Rigo Chacon Jr.

Leo

Beth Lisick

Reneé

Jerry McDaniel Jr.

Wayne

Luis Saguar

Manny

Diana Tenes

Manny's Wife

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Synopsis

Ordinary people longing for certainty in uncertain times.

Director: Frazer Bradshaw
Producer: A.D. Liano, Laura Techera Francia
Screenwriter: Frazer Bradshaw
Production Co: Lucky Hat Entertainment
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 28, 2017
Runtime: 1h 24m

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