The film is too invested in treacly optimism for its character dynamics to feel sketched out beyond their basic narrative function.
The actor discusses the social fabric of Matthew Porterfield’s film and growing up in Baltimore.
Most of the film’s great moments belong in Matthew Porterfield’s traditional observational wheelhouse.
Matthew Porterfield’s Sollers Point conveys the limitations of freedom within towns like the one at its center.
This is a patchwork dystopia of white poverty whose facets are difficult both to deny and to prove exist as depicted.