Country Gold
critic Reviews
, 88% Fresh Tomatometer Score- Country Gold's tone may leave some viewers with a sour taste, but what it lacks in reverence for the music, it more than makes up with sheer creative audacity.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNoel MurrayLos Angeles Times
Reece’s ideas don’t always fit together neatly, but by gosh he has a lot of them. It’s a treat to watch him play.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreGlenn KennyNew York Times
The snotty dismissiveness with which it treats country music ultimately overwhelms its intriguing qualities.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSteven Nguyen ScaifeSlant Magazine
For all its formal playfulness, the film never loses its grip on the interior lives to its characters.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNoah BerlatskyChicago Reader
The fame-corrupts-the-innocent plot is an elaborate send-up, as is just about everything in the film, which hovers somewhere between a surreal Christopher Guest mockumentary and Hal Hartley’s deadpan irony.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreNick AllenRogerEbert.com
Country Gold has a wild, fascinating kick, a movie that has the sensitivity of a liquor-drenched ballad, but has the What if? of science fiction as its North star.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTim GriersonScreen International
What’s potentially entrancing about Country Gold is that it transcends the ordinary, crafting a fanciful new reality where anything could happen — sadly, though, not enough worthwhile does.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreQ.V. HoughVague Visages
Country Gold, with all its simplicity and overt homages, never feels boring. Reece seems invested in innovation.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreDeirdre CrimminsPaste Magazine
Country Gold is a cozy, easy way to get to know two characters inside and out.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreTim BrennanAbout Boulder
The work that Mickey Reece and his collaborators do makes independent cinema a richer and more interesting place.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlan FrenchSunshine State Cineplex
Country Gold unpeels what it means to be immortal and questions the power of art and symbols in culture.
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