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  Review by shookone ★★★

  plotline: Michael Haneke looking dude is filming a Wim Wenders movie and - while the french shake cam gives you a Dardenne feeling - we get some social embarrassment like in an Östlund film.

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  Review by Julian (The Film Seeker) ★★★½ 2

  You've certainly seen films about making films before, and you've no doubt seen films about troubled inner-city youth before. But save the eye-rolling until after you've read about The Worst Ones, because in traversing these clichéd jungles with the sort of rugged, amateurish enthusiasm that would annoy any cynical viewer from the jump, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret fully embrace one particular advantage that their film has over all those that came before it: the very fact that it did come after all those other films. 

  The advantage of learning from past errors seems simple enough, but it's a lesson that so many burgeoning filmmakers fail to heed in the quest to make a name for themselves—ironically, by stumbling into…

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  Review by Kern ★★★★

  I love films that deal with the ethics of filmmaking, and this one is particularly realistic and nuanced. Its message is clear, but it doesn’t take the easy route by demonizing the film crew or painting the young non-professional actors as mere victims. It’s a layered, complex, and thought-provoking film well worth seeking out.

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  Review by Meri

  The director meditating in the car, iconic

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  Review by capu 🧚🏼‍♀️ 1

  frustrant car le film n’allait pas où je voulais qu’il aille, il dévie de sa route et survole les sujets de fond qui auraient été passionnants (les problématiques abordées sur le spectacle de la précarité / de la banlieues, les remarques femmes dans l’asso et l’ado qui veut quitter le tournage, pourquoi ca ne pas plus loin ???)

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  Review by scotty_karate ★★★½

  The film asks more questions than it does answer them, and this is by design which makes the movie feel a bit more like a critical examination of methodology and ethics than it does a story. The driving force of this film however is the child acting which is simply phenomenal… the kids and their naturalistic performances as actors acting as people who are acting for a film is the main reason to see this movie.

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  Review by Jessica Jackson ★★★★

  very interesting and controversial concept. couldn’t figure out if the fictional film within the film felt exploitative or if it really would be beneficial to cast real disadvantaged kids in a film about disadvantaged kids. i wish it had a bit more of a central narrative or more structured set up. solid film, though!

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  Review by - ̗̀em ̖́- ★★★½

  Mallory Wanecque c'est toi qui mérite le César du meilleure espoir féminin. J'ai vu que elle pendant tout le film

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  Review by hugo ★★★★ 1

  A really interesting choice for winning the UCR prize this year and a way better love letter to cinema than Cut! by Michel Hazanavicius.

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  Review by Antoons97

  Enfin une scène de cinéma dans un o'tacos

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  Review by CozyRy ★★★½

  One of the more intriguing films of the year, which puts into focus the role of documentarians and their subjects. It’s often funny too, but once you dig past the thinly veiled layer of happiness these kids are experiencing, it becomes quite heartbreaking. Recommend this one as I hope it gets a bigger audience, and avoids flying too far under the radar.

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  Review by Ethan Essner ★★★★

  Film Featuring the Peeps on the Street

  A liberating take on what it means to craft a film. The idea of coming together as a community of vague acquaintances to develop art harkens back to the words of Robert Altman at his Academy Awards speech in 2006. “I equate films with sand castles. You get a bunch of mates and you go down and you say I’m going to build this great sand castle and you build it. Then, the tide comes in and twenty minutes its just smooth sand. And that structure you made is in everybodies' memory and that's it” he detailed.

  “Les Pires” (or “The Worst Ones”) exhibits this concept in a way that isn’t thespian or…