The Middle Man

2021

1h 35m

Drama

Comedy

List

74%

Tomatometer

27 Reviews

64%

Audience Score

Fewer than 50 Ratings

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

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Anton Bitel

Sight & Sound

...The Middle Man shows the dreamy artifice behind the MAGA yearning for past prosperity. Here, very real brokenness and misery are refashioned as individual psychosis and collective fiction, and responsibility as something to be escaped.

Mar 15, 2023

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Feels oddly rootless, never quite persuading as a piece of small-town Americana. Still, it is ruefully entertaining and looks terrific, with a colour palette of sullen blues and ill-natured yellows.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 12, 2023

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

It’s like a cast-off Coen Brothers idea that’s trying hopelessly to say something meaningful about work and the neutralising impact it has on our inner lives... The “meaningful” pauses frustrate, while the flab between scenes is intolerable.

Rated: 1/5

Mar 10, 2023

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Crockett Houghton

Film Inquiry

The Middle Man was a happy surprise that is fun and heartfelt, tragic and funny.

Mar 19, 2023

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

The story unfolds with big wrinkles that draw out deeper themes. This sometimes leaves the film feeling dour and rather grim, but the underlying honesty is powerfully involving, forcing us to look inside ourselves.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 15, 2023

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

... A moderately enjoyable yarn.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 13, 2023

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Paul M

Interesting premise but a bad movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/23

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Synopsis

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

Director: Bent Hamer
Producer: Bent Hamer, Simone Urdl, Jamie Manning, Jennifer Weiss, Reinhard Brundig, Nina Frese, Jacob Jarek
Screenwriter: Bent Hamer, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bent Hamer
Production Co: Bulbul Films, The Film Farm, Profile Pictures
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 35m