Some Kind of Heaven

Oppenheim doesn't want to bury or praise these folks indulging in senior-citizen hedonism; he's more interested in making queasy art out of the communal hangover.

One of those documentaries that has a great subject, but doesn't really know what to do with it.

All that psychological stuff was very interesting. But the point that I really walked away with was that in this community, every man in this community seemed to act like a crazy teenager.

Sometimes it's poignant, other times it's chilling, sometimes just depressing... I just wanted to know more details than were explored here.

[D]espite its merits, this wry look at several beleaguered senior citizens living in the world's largest retirement community - Central Florida's the Villages - is often undercut by this telescoped approach.

It's like a movie set the size of Manhattan-a Hollywood facsimile of the midcentury high life you can actually move into.

Darren Aronofsky-produced documentary is remarkable look at life in Florida's fake utopia.

It chooses which facets of this niche world to show you through remarkable access to the residents, and with a guiding hand that asks you to draw your own conclusions.

For all the promise of a "New York Times Presents" documentary, "Heaven" isn't exactly an infomercial, but it's not much deeper than that.

In the unlikely event that there's an overabundance of merriment in your life under COVID, and nobody in your pod is complaining enough, you might want to see "Some Kind of Heaven.