Golden Exits

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Golden Exits

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Released Feb 9, 2018

1h 34m

Drama

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Nick has settled into a safe existence in Brooklyn, where he toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy, a music producer who lives in the same neighborhood. For the few months she spends around Nick, Buddy and their families, Naomi's presence upsets the unpleasant balance holding these two households together.

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Critics Consensus

Golden Exits tells a small-scale tale whose seemingly mundane trappings belie a satisfying handful of finely tuned observations about modern life and relationships.

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Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

A movie that gazes deep into its characters' unhappiness and emerges with something searching, sad - and perilously close to likable.

Feb 15, 2018

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

Honestly, if it weren't for the performances this would probably be insufferable. But everyone in the film is good.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 15, 2018

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

While you'll salute Golden Exits for never going full-on Fatal Attraction, it ends up feeling cagey, trapped in the realm of the theoretical and too hip to raise its tensions above a simmer.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 15, 2018

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Colin Stacy

Vague Visages

This film doesn’t have an answer, but it does compel one to actually care about the stuff of their life.

Dec 6, 2023

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

As with Noah Baumbach’s films, on a certain level I wonder outside of a certain kind of tristate social nexus could possibly care about this — and, equally, I don’t really care.

Jan 12, 2023

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Perry's aesthetic choice are also designed to obscure clarity. The film is grainy-warmly and beautifully so-while the sound design is such that everything is more or less at the level of room tone.

Dec 11, 2020

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jacqui m

Yuck! Horrible movie; charades as a vehicle of epiphany; just saps audience' time. 1 hour, 29 minutes I will never get back. To get things straight, children of the 80s and early 90s in Australia absolutely grew up with "who's the boss"! American movies love framing Australians as backward, hick or deprived in some way. 🤮

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/14/23

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Audience Member

I've liked some of Alex Ross Perry's films in the past, but this isn't one of them. Just found it to be torturous to watch, with stiff and stilted dialogue plus quite unlikable characters. Seemed to all end up in pretentious babble, I'm sorry to say.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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The film was shot in 15 days. It felt like it took that long to watch it. The character development had potential, but it was a paradise lost. The New York setting could have been utilyzed to it's benefit, but it was nowhere to be found. I kept hanging on for some plot development. It went down like a leak in an ignored tire... very slowly. I've rated movies this poorly due to gratuitous sex. That would have improved this loser.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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farah r

Boring and too artsy for its own good. Golden Exists has a terrible plot and a worse script.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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toby h

Not a bad watch, despite nothing much happening. Classic indie filmmaking.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

There are some movies that are so bad that they become fascinating to watch just to see how bad they can be. This movie isn't bad. It isn't much of anything. However, it does take the feeling of boredom to levels at which it becomes inverted. The boredom that this movie generates becomes an end in itself. Don't expect to learn anything or feel anything with this movie. it just exists and that is about all I can say about it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Synopsis

Nick has settled into a safe existence in Brooklyn, where he toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy, a music producer who lives in the same neighborhood. For the few months she spends around Nick, Buddy and their families, Naomi's presence upsets the unpleasant balance holding these two households together.

Director: Alex Ross Perry
Producer: Joshua Blum, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Alex Ross Perry, Adam Piotrowicz, Katie Stern
Screenwriter: Alex Ross Perry
Distributor: Stage 6, Vertical Entertainment
Production Co: Faliro House Productions, Vertical Entertainment, Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Washington Square Films
Rating: R (Some Language|Sexual References)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $37.5K
Runtime: 1h 34m

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