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68% Tomatometer 41 Reviews 45% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A lonely internet gambler in New York City becomes obsessed with a seductive webcam model from San Francisco. He soon embarks on a quest to see if their emotional connection is real -- or if he's just being taken for a ride.
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Critics Consensus

Its intelligent and nuanced approach to potentially salacious material is refreshing, but PVT Chat struggles to use it in service of a meaningful story.

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Cath Clarke Guardian 02/11/2021
3/5
It's a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But it's hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age. Go to Full Review
Adam Graham Detroit News 02/11/2021
B-
"PVT Chat" is at its best when it delves into the intensity of digital relationships and the ways our minds can trick us into believing the deepness of a connection formed over a computer screen. Go to Full Review
Danny Leigh Financial Times 02/10/2021
3/5
The movie ends up feeling like an older vintage of New York story, the kind of pre-gentrification indie you expect a youthful Jim Jarmusch to wander through. Go to Full Review
Greg Carlson Vague Visages 07/28/2023
Hozie nails the greener-grass metaphor in ‘PVT Chat’ with a clarity... Go to Full Review
Elissa Suh Moviepudding (Substack) 01/27/2023
A degenerate charm wafts through this When Harry Met Sally for the OnlyFans generation. Go to Full Review
Victoria Luxford City AM 03/01/2022
2/5
PVT Chat has interesting moments and eye-catching characters (Jacks shady friends who call him Blackjack Jack make his gloomy world a little larger). However, none of this arthouse fodder seems to gel in the way you hope it will. Go to Full Review
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L H Jun 3 I stumbled across this one on Tubi. I thought the premise was interesting and made me curious to see how an online gambling addict obsessed with a chat girl ends up panning out. I didn't have any expectations at all, and I can't say that I didn't like the movie, but I think it was missing something. Some depth, some nuance, some character development perhaps. It was mostly a lot of Peter Vack fapping. I guess by the time the film ends, the situation culminates into precisely what you think would happen in that scenario - unhealthy people getting together under unhealthy circumstances. See more Jon H 03/14/2024 Do I really need to watch Peter Vack repeatedly choke the chicken in vivid X detail? Unappealing characters doing unappealing things. I like the dirty side of the curb as much as the next degenerate, but these guys made me want to cross the street to avoid running into them. See more 12/15/2021 Amazing acting and filming, if you want stories with neat resolutions, high end production etc then you're missing the charm of this beautiful story See more 09/10/2021 Sadly the third act introduces the most interesting part of the story too late, and that was in the trailer, for what should have been the turning point and start of a clever interesting movie. Instead with get a wandering. Julia Fox is great and mesmerizing but sadly the cinematography and directing make it look like a bad student movie shot with 2 bucks and a few friends. The approach was interesting but wasted. See more @TKDLife 04/15/2021 This movie is horrible. It is a pseudo-intellectual, pompous soft core porn. The only reason to watch this movie is Julia Fox. Her talents and beauty transcend this vehicle. If she was not in the film it would be unwatchable; however, the scenes she is in you can not help but be captivated by her presence and delivery. I think the film was ambitious, but it fails because it does not understand its own identity. It is porn disguised as art. It is not art. See more 03/22/2021 Honestly, its garbage.. Unless your some kind of art critic that feels the needs to mix words to fluff this up into something special its a waste of your time. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A lonely internet gambler in New York City becomes obsessed with a seductive webcam model from San Francisco. He soon embarks on a quest to see if their emotional connection is real -- or if he's just being taken for a ride.
Director
Ben Hozie
Producer
Oliver David
Screenwriter
Ben Hozie
Distributor
Dark Star Pictures
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 5, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 9, 2021
Runtime
1h 26m
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