American Job

work is hell. movies are salvation. chris smith stopped by the 20-seat microcinema just to see who else besides jack black would show up and then apologized to all of us for how weird the movie is even though it’s awesome. very evidently a spiritual precursor to…

ariel lebeau

This movie's like one of them lenticular deals. From one angle it's the most boring movie ever made, from another it's one of the funniest and seriously most brilliant. Definitely helps if you've ever tried to read a book in the break room of a minimum wage job.

Dylan Dawson

And it’s only gotten worse!  Glad to see someone documenting what real life is like.

Zen Lee Paradise

Chris Smith's American Job offers an unvarnished, stark depiction of the monotonous and often dehumanising nature of low-wage work in America. As the director's debut feature, this quasi-documentary film is an early glimpse into Smith's penchant for exploring the…

Paul Elliott

Someone needs to rescan and re-release American Job as soon as possible. This is the movie Clerks wishes it was. As someone who bounced around a lot of different jobs in the 90s and 00s, this was painfully relatable. Really highlights the dehumanizing nature, boredom,…

Reeves

Job to job, abyss to abyss. Oddly soothing, but maybe that's comfortable distance or my ambition-drained, drone-ready self talking. This is probably a better movie than American Movie. It just doesn't have Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank to compel. Really felt a natural…

momoe_nakanishi

Heard about this on a podcast and was intrigued, didn’t realize just how micro-budget it is. Bleak but pretty cathartic, and the low-scale and timid tone is really effective. Work sucks, man.

Joe

This documentary shows what Americans mean when they say "MAGA", up to and including the concealed-carry Russian roulette playing crazy co-worker. This is literally what they want to bring "back" so they can feel "great again" about themselves while being exploited on the…

Efthimia Dilpizoglou

And now we have another American indie, but one that I can't endorse. Here co-writer Randy Russell plays an aimless shlub that meanders from one dead end job to another. Really, nothing else happens here. He takes one job, then leaves it. He begins another one, then gets…

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