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Zola

Zola

2021
Comedy, Drama
1h 26m
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Avg Percentile 48.25% from 289 total ratings

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Rated 07 Jul 2021
4
26th
Based on true events or not, there just isn't much of a story here. The four leads pour everything they can into their characters, who are interesting enough moment-to-moment. The relationship dynamics between Zola and Stefani are especially intriguing, but the film shies away from ever exploring them too directly. I can imagine this was a riveting read in 140-character chunks, and whatever producer decided to option this probably thought they couldn't go wrong with this much juice.
Rated 25 Jul 2021
70
41st
If you look at the story in its original Twitter form then sure, it's exciting. As a movie? We've seen similar shit done in movies before, because at its heart it's a movie about sex trafficking. That doesn't mean it's bad though! It's got a playfulness to it that actually makes it feel different than other films of this ilk. It gets by a lot on how kinetic it can feel. Keough and Paige play off each other well.
Rated 28 Nov 2021
50
45th
You wanna hear a story about how I found this enjoyable but ultimately uneventful? It's a movie with pretty people but the way the plot builds up and never really resolves the conflict between Paige and Keough/Domingo is a letdown. It's refreshing to see Paige's Zola act reasonable, even confident, while facing those challenges. I've only watched Keough in American Honey, so I'll need to catch up on her many other credits. Fav scene: flipping the script to Keough's POV: "she only made $1."
Rated 06 Aug 2021
84
92nd
(SPRING TWEETERS)
Rated 28 Jul 2021
65
36th
Greg the MF egg
Rated 01 Jul 2021
70
58th
Keough heartemoji. a horror that drapes comedy over it like a silk sheet, only to have it slowly slip away.
Rated 03 Aug 2021
55
47th
I love the idea of it, but the screenplay failed to fill in the parts needed to transition an entertaining twitter thread into any kind of impactful movie. There are some great performances, but they can only carry the film so far. Worth a watch for the novelty, though, I would say.
Rated 26 Jul 2021
85
76th
Loved it! I found myself imagining this as the light relief in a triple-bill sandwiched between Spring Breakers and the Florida Project.
Rated 15 Aug 2021
65
65th
A colorful Floridian comedy about sex workers that's sex-positive if sardonic at times, and doesn't really come off as over-the-top as it ought to. I read it is based on a tweet thread, which is inspiring really.
Rated 01 Nov 2021
70
82nd
I never know what to think of movies based on true events like this, in terms of critiquing them. How do you critique real shit that actually (mostly) happened? The performances are top notch, with Riley Keough turning in another memorable one & Taylour Paige owning every bit of deadpan delivery she has. Nicholas Braun is really funny. It just gets wilder as it goes, reminded me of Ingrid Goes West with how gleefully batshit it became. Overall, many reasons for me to never visit Florida.
Rated 02 Nov 2021
64
48th
Well, that happened. Well-acted and all, and Bravo throws in a lot of little details to capture the absurdity that is Florida. But afterwards it's hard not to feel a bit like "...and then what?"
Rated 06 Nov 2021
75
68th
It's all about that Florida life, huh? You just know that it happens in the same universe as Spring Breakers.
Rated 12 Dec 2021
80
68th
Interesting narrative directions with an aesthetic that belongs to Sean Baker's new American indie. Gorgeous cinematography and unwaveringly steady tone is only let down by underworking the thematic grounds that were merely touched upon.
Rated 02 Jan 2022
75
56th
Putting aside feeling like I'm listening to Riley Keough do an Iggy Azalea impression for 85 minutes, I'm down with this. It's entertaining - "pussy is worth thousands, bitch!" - and does get satisfyingly tense, while at the same time underscoring that these people are all fucking morons. There have been better explorations of "stripper culture", sex trafficking, etc., but this is interesting enough and brief enough that it's totally worth the watch, buoyed by a very believable ensemble.
Rated 24 Oct 2022
41
6th
An interesting idea, but this based-on-a-Tweet-storm screenplay starts to show its lack of depth or insight pretty quickly, keeping things at the shallow, reactive level that you would expect from a tale told by social media; at least Paige and Keough are bright and charismatic presences that at least keep the film borderline watchable, though Keough’s appearance might evoke memories of the similar, but much better, AMERICAN HONEY. Might have worked better as a short subject.
Rated 28 Sep 2021
73
29th
I watched this while high af and my main memory is feeling so sorry for Stefani for having to sleep with all those dudes which is I feel like not totally the intention here
Rated 20 Jul 2022
4
63rd
a remarkable dark and funny movie that's ultimately about dissociating yourself from the reality of sexual exploitation that ending though.. might have to rewatch it because it just plain stopped, leaving me a bit perplexed
Rated 09 Apr 2022
80
77th
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Rated 03 Jul 2021
74
48th
It turns out you CAN make a movie out of a bunch of tweets. And a funny, suspenseful, and altogether interesting one at that.
Rated 26 Jul 2021
27
16th
A lot of promise but ultimately completely insubstantial.
Rated 22 Jul 2021
65
23rd
Fairly well-made and stylish. But I don't think the story was translated very well to the screen; the narrative felt choppy and uneven.
Rated 12 Aug 2021
70
59th
I've said it before I'll say it again I love aesthetic movies about girls doing things. This movie was really fun, a brisk 90 mins, and captured the mania of the Twitter thread.
Rated 15 Aug 2021
40
13th
As trashy as trashy comes
Rated 04 Oct 2021
50
33rd
Not engaging as it is read -- I mean, how do you shoot a thread on Twitter and make it really interesting? -- and pretty sub-Sean Baker as expected. Cast is good, though, and there is some amusing chaotic energy all over it -- although it eventually falls short of something more than its viral force.
Rated 11 Oct 2021
80
74th
Way better than any film based on a tweet thread should have the right to be, this hit me in a similar way as Tangerine. And is Riley Keough ever not the best?
Rated 07 Nov 2021
75
59th
I kept having to remind myself this is a real story(maybe) because part of me wanted things to be crazier. Still, there is an absurdity to the whole thing that is blended expertly with an underlying sense of dread. Keough's performance is hilarious as well as striking the tone of "wait should I be laughing at this?"
Rated 21 Nov 2021
55
34th
Bitch film. Arkadaş kurbanı olan Zola, gittiği her yerde, arkadaşını erkeklere satmak zorunda kalır. Colman Domingo'nun kötü adam rolünde çok başarılı. Genç kızların yaşadığı kolay para kazanma ahlaksızlığını yüzümüze vuruyor. Bunu da hiç utanmadan anlatıyor. Filmin sonunda, durmak yok yola devam. Senin için Abegunde Olawale olduğunu söylüyorlar.
Rated 12 Dec 2021
70
19th
Viewed December 10, 2021. With the exception of the (admittedly pretty funny) "Hannah Montana" sequence, Janicza Bravo avoids social media generation tics and instead shoots this in dark, textured images that keep this from being a straightforward wacky comedy and take it into some thornier dimensions. The comic timing is superb throughout and often used to provoke some unsettling tonal changes, and the performances are impressive.
Rated 20 Dec 2021
75
74th
i tend to enjoy Florida-set movies and when it’s as well-made as this then that’s a good movie for me
Rated 21 Jan 2022
74
74th
The original twitter thread was a real gem and this was the best possible way to put it on film. I really loved all the performances (u/Alan_Laidlaw is right that this feels very Sean Baker) and it's got exactly the right amount of dark humor, much of which is directly drawn from the original tweets. Underneath the laughs, it's a bizarrely humanizing drama about human trafficking in general. Time to donate to a good cause.
Rated 29 Jun 2022
40
7th
The film seems to know that there's not a lot to the story since it tries to liven it up with an absolutely frenetic style. For me, it felt like the film was hollering it's fairly dull story in my face.
Rated 05 Sep 2022
7
63rd
It's tweet-sized in its story, too often feeling like a short film stretched thin with gaps where deeper character or theme development should be. The scattered script pieces are excellent though, provoking in their subject matter, plot thrills, and relational dynamics, and Paige's great Zola provides a steady emotional core throughout. Its construction is also amazing: the film grain, fades, and freeze frames, the unique camera angles, the vocalized texts, the unnerving sound design and score.
Rated 13 Nov 2022
48
37th
And after all, twitter is not all garbage, right?
Rated 20 Nov 2022
50
8th
Top badass moment? The pole dancing. No, not for 'that' reason, it’s just I don’t think I could learn to do it and I’ve got the physique of Superman, so that makes it badass. This is a movie about trailer trash doing what trailer trash does. Honestly, I'm not criticising; my mother lived in a trailer, although because we’re British and bought up proper like, we call them mobile homes. It’s a well-made film but goes nowhere, although the pimp is entertaining. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 17 Jan 2024
70
51st
fascinating cultural artifact
Rated 26 Mar 2024
46
32nd
Zola really needs to be funnier. While it's not in my wheelhouse, it is unique and has appeal.

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