While the start of a new year and ‘decluttering’ might attract you to the short documentary The Minimalists: Less is Now, the quasi-religious tone of its two protagonists feels more like a church sermon from a cult than an introduction to just living with less.
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Review: Netflix doc The Minimalists comes up empty
Netflix film about the creators of The Minimalist movement is ironically weighed down by too much stuff By Glenn Sumi
Joshua Fields Millburn (left) and Ryan Nicodemus help spread the minimalist message.
THE MINIMALISTS: LESS IS NOW (Matt D’Avella). 53 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix. Rating:
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Ten months of pandemic lockdown has provided an opportunity to purge those closets, declutter those shelves and maybe get around to doing some minor renovations. Or maybe you’ve done the opposite and gone online-shopping-happy. Whatever your consumer habits, the new Netflix doc The Minimalists: Less Is Now might just inspire you to pare down the things in your life to the essentials and concentrate on what’s really important. It’s too bad the short doc comes up empty on new revelations.
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