Synopsis
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.
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Cast
- Andrew GarfieldLink
- Maya HawkeFrankie
- Nat WolffJake
- Jason SchwartzmanMark Schwartz
- Johnny KnoxvilleTed Wick
- Alexa DemieIsabelle Roberts
- Casey FreyMartin from Temecula
- Kalena YiauekiPatsy
- Jacqui GettyLisa
- Nick DarmstaedterKyler
Recommendations
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The Hollywood Reporter
It's a messy, childish scrawl of a film, but it is high on energy. - 50
Screen Daily
Not so much bleeding edge as screeching edge, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream is a frenetic piece of pop-art social satire that strives to be super-current but feels oddly traditional beneath its eye-searing, pixel-popping surface. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Mainstream may be up-to-date on stylistic grounds, but its narrative could use refreshing. - 42
The Playlist
Mainstream feels far more like a callow freshman effort, frantically tricked out with visual gimmicks and affected whimsy, none of which freshen up its palpably millennial stance on that ever-renewing question of whether or not the kids are all right. - 42
The A.V. Club
The problem with Mainstream is it isn’t plugged deep enough into the culture it’s satirizing to really even know what its target is, let alone how to hit it. - 40
Variety
A brittle, exasperated satire on social media celebrity, her sophomore film, like the tacky messiah it creates in Andrew Garfield’s YouTube sensation, soon becomes the very thing it sets out to expose: a glittery, jangly image machine that manufactures little of actual substance, except the conclusion that social media = bad. - 25
Slant Magazine
The film has the knowing swagger of something on the cutting edge but none of the self-awareness to realize it’s late to the party. - 16
The Film Stage
Indeed, the strangest thing about Mainstream (and it is a strange, strange film) is just how out of touch it feels. Granted, if it were easy to make a viral video we would all be doing it; yet what Coppola and her team have come up with is just so lame and off the mark and nauseatingly self-satisfied.
