Sylvio

2017

1h 20m

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

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87%

15 Reviews

Tomatometer

70%

50+ Ratings

Audience Score

When a small-town gorilla joins a local TV program, some on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend.

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Danny King

Village Voice

A work of gentle whimsy and surprising pathos, Sylvio proposes a buddy-comedy scenario involving a most unlikely screen pair.

Oct 12, 2017

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Nick Schager

Variety

This charming lo-fi indie from actor-director Kentucker Audley and director Albert Birney is attuned to its own eccentric wavelength, equal parts absurd and poignant.

Oct 11, 2017

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Greg Cwik

Slant Magazine

Sylvio's banal depictions of everyday loneliness through the diurnal tedium of an anthropomorphic animal brings to mind BoJack Horseman, but without the caustic navel-gazing and self-destruction or the mordant pop-culture musings.

Rated: 2/4

Oct 10, 2017

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Nathan Mattise

Ars Technica

Sylvio shows both the platform's peculiar and pleasurable influences will continue to surface...

Jul 28, 2021

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CJ Sheu

Review Film Review

Sylvio ends up being a heartfelt, meditative, offbeat, unpredictable, attentive, and drop-dead hilarious film.

Jul 1, 2020

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Sylvio is perhaps the most absurd buddy comedy that's ever been made.

Nov 27, 2017

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Audience Member

i mean... as far as artsy, make-a-statement films go, it's good. but as far as an entertaining movie, it's not. i'm not going to watch it again & i don't think i'd recommend it to anyone else either.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

Usually the weirder with me the better . This just didn’t have an interesting enough back story to reel me in 2.1

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

04/08/20

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nefasto r

After loving "Frank" so much, I am doomed to watch every movie with people under a simple mask. I loved "Brigsby Bear" too, but no luck with this indi and lo-fi comedy-drama. It last only one hour and twenty minutes and it felt endless. There is no much story there and there is no real laugh. I have to admit that the ending is cute (not amazingly good, just cute) but wasn't enough to save the movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Strangly easy to connect with. I think that's the simple geniUs of this film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Kentucker Audley

Director

Albert Birney

Director

Kentucker Audley

Al Reynolds

Tallie Medel

Maggie

Meghan Doherty

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Synopsis

When a small-town gorilla joins a local TV program, some on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend.

Director: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Producer: Tanner Beard, James Belfer, David Moscow, Kent Osborne, Jason Dreyer, Louise Issacs, Todd Remis
Screenwriter: Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney, Meghan Doherty
Production Co: Dogfish Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 2, 2018
Runtime: 1h 20m

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