In Jackson Heights

during several of the meeting scenes, a man sitting behind me would occasionally go "yup" or "mmhm" and presumably nod his head, as though he was actually sitting in the room with these people. this is what i imagine a Wiseman 4DX Experience might feel like. the many scenes…

esther

I make a cameo at approximately 1 hour and 52 minutes.

Eliecer Gaspar

Uses a year in the life of a neighbourhood to encapsulate everything good and bad about America in the 2010s. Awe-inspiring. Wiseman has got to be the best documentary filmmaker who's ever lived.

Will Sloan

shout out Daniel Dromm

David Sims

sometimes I can get too caught up in looking at the infrastructure and various metaphors at play in a Wiseman film to appreciate how important the basic facts at play are, like the fact that Wiseman, at age 85, chose to make a movie with so much detail and lived specificity…

ShawnGlinis

I hesitate to give immediate reactions to these movies because as they percolate in my mind they always unveil something new, something exciting, so writing down something that many people will see as My Opinion feels like a crime. But I’m mostly interested in how despite…

Alyssa Heflin

"Like most of Wiseman’s work, the central character is not an individual, but the crowd. I can’t help wondering if Wiseman — removed from the propaganda of Soviet Russia — has truly achieved the cinema that Eisenstein wrote about. With his rigorous editing process and…

Justine Smith

62/100 A.V. Club review. Eye-opening even for me, though I lived in New York for 17 years. None of my neighborhoods (East Village, Bushwick, Park Slope) were this vibrantly multicultural, and Wiseman chronicles the diversity without editorializing, avoiding the heavier…

Mike D'Angelo

Communities within communities within communities. Supporting each other, some more privileged than others, all connected by the simple fact that capitalism will swallow us all, no matter where you came from or where you want to go. Best connected dots: "When they ask…

laird