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      Uncle Kent

      2011 1h 12m Comedy Drama List
      60% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 44% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Though he hopes to get her into bed, a cartoonist's visit with a woman he met in a chat room does not go exactly as planned. Read More Read Less

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      Tanya Whole lotta nuthin,' unless you enjoy watching a moment-by-moment of people sitting around doing almost nothing. Flirting like 11 year olds. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Funny and soberingly ambivalent, Uncle Kent is a mumblecore masterpiece Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Ok in all honestly wtf did I just watch. If they were trying to make a movie to make me feel as uncomfortable and weird as possible they did their job . I only give reviews of movies that suck btw Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Swanberg's experimental and scrappy little movie is filled with interesting insights as we watch a middle age actor playing a variation of himself. While he is seems determined to prove he not only loves his career and his life -- it isn't long before we notice this is not the truth of "Uncle Kent" As we move through his week, we not only see the awkwardness and unease intensify with each interaction -- we can almost feel his loneliness edging toward isolation. This film is far too observed to be dismissed. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Sexual realism and likable characters help move Uncle Kent into tolerable mumblecore waywardness, although it lacks any semblance of the accessibility and more polished directing of later Swanberg editions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member I'd really never knowingly watched a mumblecore film before. The films seem to inspire strong feelings (one way or another), which sort of mystifies me since this film seemed so slight ... entertaining enough, but barely there. Kent Osbourne of "SpongBob SquarePants"/"Adventure Time" fame seemingly plays himself. He meets a much younger girl on Chatroulette, she comes to stay with him in LA, he tries to sleep with her and mostly fails. I was engaged enough to watch, but nobody seemed like a real person which seems wrong for such a lo-fi enterprise. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Dan Sullivan Film Comment Magazine Uncle Kent is much too intriguing to be discarded as merely twee, softcore hackwork. Nov 7, 2013 Full Review Jordan Hoffman UGO If you come in midway you'll think you stumbled upon some unedited webcam feed, but this is, I suppose, the new aesthetic of the avant-garde Rated: B- Feb 1, 2011 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker The prolific and daring independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg captures the loneliness of the long-term D.I.Y. artist in the age of social networking. Jan 24, 2011 Full Review Ray Pride Newcity "Hi, where have you been all my life?" may be learned behavior, but it always sounds good up close... [A] sense of life-just-happens and what-the-------just-happened, those instants just before cheeks flush and unwelcome memories etch. Mar 17, 2015 Full Review Charlie Lyne Ultra Culture At 72 minutes, it's hardly a big ask. Apr 29, 2012 Full Review Brandon Judell CultureCatch Swanberg seems to be making films that can be mistaken for reality TV shows, except his characters are the type that would never be considered for such programming because they are a bit too uncolorful, almost but not quite milquetoast-y. Jun 25, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Though he hopes to get her into bed, a cartoonist's visit with a woman he met in a chat room does not go exactly as planned.
      Director
      Joe Swanberg
      Screenwriter
      Joe Swanberg, Kent Osborne
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 4, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 12m
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