Review of Machines (2017) by Ben Kenigsberg for New York Times — 07 Aug 2017
The ideological charge leveled for decades at this strain of filmmaking is that such eye-catching tableaus romanticize poverty, but prettified squalor has become sadly familiar in global documentary filmmaking.
In Machines, even at barely more than an hour, the style leads to diminishing returns.
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This review of Machines (2017) was written by Ben Kenigsberg and published by New York Times on 07 August 2017.
Machines has generally received positive reviews.
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