306 Hollywood Reviews
A bold, interesting experiment.
| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020
Not all of devices work (some passages border on cloying), but on the whole this evokes a pleasant sense of wonder about everyday life.
| Feb 12, 2020
Visually striking.
| Mar 18, 2019
The tribute the Bogarín siblings have made for their grandmother may not be recognizable to every audience member, but grief by its very nature is personal....
| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 22, 2018
I found 306 Hollywood to be an uncommonly warm and gracious documentary and one that in the end proves that there are no stories to small for the movies.
| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2018
The need to make an ordinary life extraordinary is so prevalent it smothers any genuine emotion from family members losing a loved one.
| Oct 11, 2018
Elan and Jonathan Bogarín's film—part personal essay, part home movie, and part eulogy for an ordinary life—blends various tones and visual styles with confidence and infectious exuberance.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2018
One of the best documentaries of the year.
| Oct 4, 2018
to Sarah's family, it is an extraordinary one and their love for her is all there on the screen.
| Original Score: B | Oct 4, 2018
If Wes Anderson made a documentary about a deceased loved one, it might look a lot like this one.
| Original Score: B+ | Oct 4, 2018
At the risk of being indelicate, Grandma's life - well-lived but ordinary - doesn't make for a very compelling documentary.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2018
Genuinely poignant, illuminating and well-edited with a very warm, charismatic and candid documentary subject.
| Original Score: 8.9/10 | Sep 30, 2018
For every moment that feels overdone there are three moments that are genuinely touching. Then comes the coup-de-grâce.
| Sep 28, 2018
Opening up about those messy feelings in an unconventional way as 306 Hollywood does not only feels cathartic, but necessary.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 28, 2018
The ... movie ... is an aesthetically innovative and moving spectacle that avoids the confusion of hodgepodge thanks to the Bogarins' clear vision.
| Sep 27, 2018
"306 Hollywood" makes for morbid, at times insufferable viewing. But its solipsism is part of its message.
| Sep 27, 2018
Maybe the Bogarins keep pulling new tricks out of their bag to distract us from the creeping suspicion that this is all just exploitation of a dead woman's private life.
| Sep 27, 2018
While their finds are quite stunning, 306 Hollywoodblends narratives just a bit while showing how important it is to not hoard so much in later years.
| Sep 26, 2018
In 306 Hollywood, we learn the importance of houses as historical landmarks for families, and also how the stories of everyone, not just those of the rich and famous, are invaluable to the history of humanity.
| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 26, 2018
The colorful, stylistic flourishes of 306 Hollywood makes it stand out as something truly unique - an ordinary woman's life rendered into an extraordinary film.
| Sep 26, 2018