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

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

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

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

"306 Hollywood" makes for morbid, at times insufferable viewing. But its solipsism is part of its message.

| Sep 27, 2018

306 Hollywood makes a strong case that nothing is too ordinary to be transformed and elevated by art.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 25, 2018

Annette blooms into a vivid presence - more so than her living descendants, whose khaki safari outfits and stage-y narration about the passage of time tilt things a bit too twee.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 23, 2018

It tells us more about the filmmakers' cutesy-poo sensibilities than how they feel about the loved one they've lost.

| Original Score: C | Jan 22, 2018

306 Hollywood feels simultaneously like the sort of heartfelt little film that often slips through the cracks without finding an audience and like one of the more universal and relatable films you're ever likely to see.

| Jan 22, 2018

"306 Hollywood" honors the ordinary.

| Jan 19, 2018