A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.
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| Slant MagazineCarson LundThis is a rigorous film concerned with questions of cultural appropriation, learned behavior, and the very texture of life in our content-saturated present (a feeling not exclusive to urban centers), but one with the good humor and wisdom to disguise itself as something far more familiar. |
| VarietyJessica KiangWilfully student-video amateurish in form, but impishly sophisticated in content, a gleeful cultural curiosity fairly crackles off The Plagiarists, and it is highly contagious. |
| The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe Plagiarists does skewer its characters, but where it goes from there is more genuinely bleak than what mere finger-pointing can achieve. |
| Film ThreatAlex SavelievA reminder of the importance and intimacy of literature, a meta-study of art vs. fabrication, an indictment of cultural appropriation/racial stereotypes, our increasingly digitized world and entitled generation, The Plagiarists is also an ode to how much can be done with very little. Parlow and his crew knock it out of the park. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJagged and acrid, yet also slippery and provocative, “The Plagiarists” is a micro-indie talkathon with the edge of something forcibly overheard but fragmented, as if you’d been thrown into a cramped rideshare with many discursive routes and no obvious destination |
| The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe film improves upon reflection, raising, as it does, some knotty questions about originality in art and in life, as well as provocatively positing that even a copy of a copy of a copy has the potential to move hearts and minds. |
| CineVuePatrick GambleThe topic of who can participate in the arts often ignores society’s racial prejudices and class assumptions, thankfully The Plagiarists’ perfectly judged mimicry of independent cinema illustrates the profound effect a lack of diversity has on the type of art that gets made. |
| The Film StageRory O'ConnorWere The Plagiarists merely this observation of liberal minds in duress it would have made for a more than enjoyable watch but with credit to Kienitz and Wilkins’ terrific script, it becomes more nuanced and haunting only after that first act. |
| The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyUltimately, it’s the awkwardness that they’re prodding. The Plagiarists isn’t asking why one person would tell a lie, but why another would be so bothered by it — an ambitious line of inquiry for which the film provides more references than concrete answers. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmI got more enjoyment from reading Parlow’s exceptional interview in the production notes than I did from any given scene in the movie, some of which are so murky, they border on incoherent. |
