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Digging for Fire

Digging for Fire

2015
Drama
1h 25m
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Avg Percentile 42.53% from 132 total ratings

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Rated 14 Apr 2019
70
65th
Married couples are never as married when in a Joe Swanberg film. Not as (fill in later) as Drinking Buddies but not as (fill in later) either.
Rated 20 Apr 2016
45
23rd
Apatow-esque couple drama about people trying to find themselves -- as a person, not as a couple -- by digging the wrong grounds -- beer with friends, flirting with strangers, talking nonsense about spiritual and earthly pleasures. At the end, Swanberg wants this couple to be reunited with even more love and flair -- and that's what make this so uninspired in the first place. Sometimes, a couple with a baby just needs some time for themselves -- the distance and time apart do the rest.
Rated 11 Nov 2016
62
31st
I'm now starting to fear that opting for ad-libbed dialogue is more due to an inability rather than a stylistic choice by writer-director Swanberg. The result is another competent film that is a mixed-bag. The tone of the film is a little too mellow, though there are a few funny moments. While there is a theme of growing up and older, this film doesn't have much to say, and is worse off for it.
Rated 17 May 2016
77
49th
The film for the most part had a relaxed atmosphere, and nice well-realised scenes with interesting dialogue. But by the time it finished, it just felt so... unfinished. Very little was resolved, plot-wise or character-wise. So many peripheral characters with so little to say or do. In a way it felt just like the earlier generation of indie/mumblecore pictures, but now with a bigger budget, more recognisable faces, and far less meaning or message. Swanberg is turning into a serial disappointer.
Rated 26 Aug 2015
60
62nd
The individuals in a couple find themselves over a weekend spent apart. Not exactly fresh territory, especially for Joe Swanberg, but it's funny enough and makes enough points that it's worth seeing.
Rated 31 Jan 2016
30
7th
swanberg'ın tonu öyle ince bir denge istiyor ki, bir yanda all the lights in the sky gibi bir güzellik çıkarken diğer yanda sakız gibi gevelenen fikirler etrafında tanındık simaların geçişi ortaya çıkıyor burada olduğu gibi. hikaye özünde yaşama dair güzel şeyler de söylüyor oysa ama bunun için 80 küsür dakikaya ihtiyacı var mı, tartışmalı.
Rated 01 Jan 2020
67
41st
It's like Godard said all you need is a girl, a bone and a gun
Rated 29 Sep 2016
45
34th
Keep digging! Why do I continue to watch Joe Swanberg films? I know I don't like him...but continue to watch anyways. More pointless indie mumblecore garbage. Wasted opportunity and a wasted cast. Rosemary DeWitt looks 10 years older than Jake Johnson....did not buy them as a married couple for one second!
Rated 31 Aug 2015
75
65th
Saying that this is Swanberg's best isn't saying all that much, but there you have it.
Rated 26 Aug 2015
20
14th
I guess I'm not a Joe Swanberg kind of guy. I simply found this poorly staged, which is not a good thing when this is full of nothing.
Rated 15 Sep 2015
78
61st
Just a bunch of people that are super likeable hanging out, doing drugs, cheating on each other. You know. Good stuff.
Rated 20 May 2018
77
53rd
Meandering drama is enjoyable enough, even if the existentialist questions posed by its characters are dealt with better (and in more depth) in other more ambitious films; it's to Johnson and DeWitt's credit that their oftentimes whiny and self indulgent characters end up being quite endearing and involving. Fine work by an unusually distinguished supporting cast helps, but final result is low-key satisfactory.
Rated 20 Apr 2016
55
15th
Joe Swanberg's drama projects do not work for my personal tastes. I find them boring, every day, and realistic in the worst ways. I enjoyed You're Next and will be interested if Joe Swanberg creates another horror film, but it will take a lot of persuasion to get me to watch another drama made by him. It was funny how fake the digging was in this movie. Dust was being moved around, but not a lot of actual digging.
Rated 12 Apr 2018
40
21st
It was hard to make it through this.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
50
26th
Obsessed with the issues of representation, there is a class of leftish movies that struggle with how to sanitise their diegeses in the proper way. There's something a little depressing about this movie; while confidently directed, just a little too much weak-ass insipid writing. Something about it is a well told story, replete with notes of nuance, but being made for and within a certain demographic who don't solicit much of my sympathies.
Rated 15 Aug 2021
55
47th
Unsatisfying. The outcome of the digging needed to be the start of the third act.
Rated 08 Oct 2021
58
48th
The arc of the plot leaves something to be desired, and some scenes suffer the consequences of setting up the plot points (or of being symbolic), but other scenes are very well devised.
Rated 23 Jul 2022
76
49th
Solid marriage dramedy. The acting is good and the story is relatable.

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