Uncle Kent

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Uncle Kent

2011

1h 12m

Comedy

Drama

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10 Reviews

43%

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100+ Ratings

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.

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Dan Sullivan

Film Comment Magazine

11/07/2013

Uncle Kent is much too intriguing to be discarded as merely twee, softcore hackwork.

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Jordan Hoffman

UGO

02/01/2011

B-

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

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

01/24/2011

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.

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Ray Pride

Newcity

03/17/2015

"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.

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Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

04/29/2012

At 72 minutes, it's hardly a big ask.

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Brandon Judell

CultureCatch

06/25/2011

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.

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Craig W.

@CJWolfe27 Sep 16

Don’t waste your time, I can’t get back that hour and twenty minutes of my life

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Tanya

12/13/2023

Whole lotta nuthin,' unless you enjoy watching a moment-by-moment of people sitting around doing almost nothing. Flirting like 11 year olds.

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12/18/2020

Funny and soberingly ambivalent, Uncle Kent is a mumblecore masterpiece

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05/15/2016

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

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05/27/2015

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.

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12/07/2014

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.

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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
Producer: Kent Osborne, 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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