Users

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Users

2022

1h 21m

Documentary

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27 Reviews

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A mother wonders: Will my children grow to love their perfect machines more than they love me? Intimate in scope and epic in scale, director Natalia Almada embarks on a cinematic journey into an invisible realm, where it is taken for granted that technological progress will always inspire social progress, and that ever-smarter machines will make humankind ever better. Constructed from stunning, immaculately rendered images and featuring a score performed by the Kronos Quartet, Users is an immersive journey into the heart of our changing relationship to the natural world.

Critics Consensus

There's no quibbling with its ambitious aims, but Users is more repetitive and less intelligent than it seems to think.

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Christy Lemire

RogerEbert.com

06/09/2023

2.5/4

Because “Users” is so captivating from a technical perspective, it’s frustrating to discover how scattered it is narratively.

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Devika Girish

New York Times

06/08/2023

The film is at its best when it allows its images and sounds to let us feel things without naming them.

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Wes Greene

Slant Magazine

06/04/2023

3.5/4

The film’s triumph is keeping us on our toes by sending us into an ether where fear and wonder live hand in hand.

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

09/05/2023

6/10

...[a] meditation about technology and how it is changing humanity, personalized by the director’s ruminations about her young son and the world he will face.

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Michael Clark

Epoch Times

08/12/2023

4.5/5

The film gave me a marked level of optimism and the belief that mankind has the will and, hopefully, the desire to return to a time when devices didn’t claim our attention so much that we forever lose touch with our fellow in-the-flesh human counterparts.

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

06/23/2023

It becomes clear that the deepest meaning of this documentary, Users, is the terrifying future that capitalism is presently preparing for our one and only planet...

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Synopsis

A mother wonders: Will my children grow to love their perfect machines more than they love me? Intimate in scope and epic in scale, director Natalia Almada embarks on a cinematic journey into an invisible realm, where it is taken for granted that technological progress will always inspire social progress, and that ever-smarter machines will make humankind ever better. Constructed from stunning, immaculately rendered images and featuring a score performed by the Kronos Quartet, Users is an immersive journey into the heart of our changing relationship to the natural world.

Director: Natalia Almada
Producer: Josh Penn, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Natalia Almada
Distributor: Icarus Films
Production Co: Altamura Films, Atlas Industries, XTR, Department of Motion Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 25, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 13, 2023
Runtime: 1h 21m