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Following the 2016 presidential election, Frederick Wiseman's documentary dissects small-town America to understand how its values impact and influence the political landscape of the nation.
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| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyWiseman himself is also the last person who’d call his films “objective,” because they’re not. It’s more that their point of view is multi-faceted, sophisticated, connoting a point of view that’s deeply felt but not on-the-nose obvious. |
| Film InquiryTomas TrussowWiseman knows that you don't have to take sides in order to make relevant cinema. |
| MUBIDaniel KasmanWiseman showcases Monrovia as having all the trappings and routines of a small American town, but, in a subtly disturbing evocation, is hollow at its core. |
| Cinema ScopeLorenzo EspositoWiseman, who shoves everywhere and observes everything with his usual mix of humour and astute political criticism, eventually finds small traces of humanity where they seem to have disappeared. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenAs always with Frederick Wiseman, it’s the quotidian gestures that haunt one in Monrovia, Indiana. |
| The ARTerySean BurnsIt's not Wiseman's style to overtly editorialize, but the film's frequent visits to a local cemetery draw a line under what's already obvious: This place is dying. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottWhile there’s no reason to suppose that this is Wiseman’s last movie, it doesn’t seem impossible that, at 88, he is aware of lengthening shadows and autumnal tints, of the fragility of perception and the finite nature of consciousness. Monrovia, Indiana is not precisely about any of those things, but it carries intimations of them, elegiac strains amid the doggerel of daily life. |
| Screen InternationalLee MarshallIn its austere way, this is classic Wiseman, a film that takes us into the heart of a community and reveals its inner workings, comforts, fractures and traumas. It’s also a fine example of the way the director sculpts and moulds his material to create an arc that is both dramatic and poetic. |
| Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganIf there is any "message" to Monrovia, Indiana, it may be that we all share the same fate. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomWatching "Monrovia, Indiana" is like driving or walking around the town and the surrounding area, stopping at various points to sit in and listen to the residents and observe their daily lives. |