Users Review: A Pensive, Tech-Wary Doc Where the Pictures Say More Than the Words
Stunning imagery but stunted philosophy mean this beautiful but meandering doc yields less than meets the eye.
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We’ve all been alone inside our heads a lot recently, and the question “why am I having weird dreams” has reportedly surged as a Google search over the past year. Natalia Almada’s “Users,” which won the directing award for U.S. Documentary in Sundance, is perhaps best appreciated as one of those peculiarly vivid dreams. Like them, it is made of uncanny imagery and strange echoey mood. But also like them, it comes apart under the scrutiny of the more logical, waking mind, and dissipates quickly in daylight.