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The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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Radiant City
Overview
Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia
Director and cast
- Jim Brown Director
- Gary Burns Director
- Daniel Jeffery as Nick Moss
- Bob Legare as Evan Moss
- Jane MacFarlane as Anne Moss
- Ashleigh Fidyk as Jennifer Moss
- Curt McKinstry as Ken
- James Howard Kunstler as James Howard Kunstler
- Karen Planden as Karen
- Mikeala Jeffrey as Nicole
- Amanda Friesen Cast
- Hong Cheng Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Suburban sprawl takes a well-deserved hit in Radiant City, a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns and journalist Jim Brown.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material, Radiant City is an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Fresh
[An] enlightening and disturbingly funny critique of North American suburban sprawl.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
Fresh
Radiant City is a movie about communities that offer everything prospective citizens might want or need, save this: a human reason to live there.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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