Some Kind of Heaven

critic Reviews

, 93% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Some Kind of Heaven could have gone deeper into its subject, but it remains a breezily entertaining look at some interesting people.
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    Mark KermodeKermode & Mayo's Film Review
    Strange dystopia and really entertaining...
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    Simran HansObserver (UK)
    It'd be easy to mistake the director's deadpan observation for mocking, but the space he holds for the darker aspects of his characters' individual stories helps to puncture any cultivated cutesyness.
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    Deborah RossThe Spectator
    It is a fascinatingly weird place and the film is worth seeing if only to get a sense of that.
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    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    The film sits back at a (cowardly?) distance, until all we can do is admire those painterly images.
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    Linda MarricThe Jewish Chronicle
    The awkward silences, deadpan deliveries and semi-comedic tone are often reminiscent of Louis Theroux's early BBC work which gave us a previously unseen slice of middle America.
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    Tara BradyIrish Times
    Intersects with the suburbia of Blue Velvet and, in common with that dark dramatic underbelly, there's a compelling soap opera bubbling under the sterile surface.
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    Dan BayerNext Best Picture
    What's more remarkable is that Oppenheim manages to give the happier scenes a sheen of grotesquerie without making them feel fake.
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    Dominic CorryNew Zealand Herald
    This documentary about America's largest retirement community is a much more wondrous film than the preconceptions elicited by that short description may suggest.
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    Paul WhitingtonIrish Independent
    [A] winning and funny documentary.
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    Soham GadreFilm Inquiry
    In Lance Oppenheim's playful and otherworldly documentary Some Kind of Heaven, we get a peculiar glimpse of the lives of people seeking to escape into something utopian and idealistic with varying results but a common sense of isolation.
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