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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe Bogarin siblings use many methods of storytelling to tell us the tale of their family, creating an atmosphere in 306 Hollywood that is Errol Morris-meets-Wes Andersen. It’s a beautiful documentary filled with magical realism and most importantly the heart and soul of their grandmother.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergThe Hollywood ReporterDaniel Fienberg306 Hollywood is a personal essay! It's a tone poem! It's a biographical collage! It's an embrace of the banal kitschy! It's magic realism! It's such a little story you may wonder why it's being told at all, except that it's a story likely to touch anybody who has ever lost a loved one, which makes it a very big story.
- 77The VergeTasha RobinsonThe VergeTasha RobinsonThe siblings address their family through a Wes Anderson lens, with a tone so playful and visually poetic that it drops into surrealism. It feels like a fresh new approach to an old genre — a willingness to not just embrace the subjectivity of family documentaries, but to charge into it full-bore.
- 75The PlaylistGary GarrisonThe PlaylistGary GarrisonDespite its tendency to lean upon self-serious reimaginings, it is nonetheless an engaging and tenderly drawn film that is likely to resonate with anyone who has had to do the tireless work of sorting through an estate of a family member.
- 70VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy Nicholson306 Hollywood is best when it gets either very scientifically dry, or reaches beyond its liminal cuteness into ambitious visual poetry.
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe result feels like an experiment to determine whether sheer creativity can transform the mundane into the magical, and qualifies as a partial success. If nothing else, you have to concede that they tried.
- 67The Film StageDaniel SchindelThe Film StageDaniel SchindelWhen it works, the movie strongly evokes the feeling of sorting through a loved one’s possessions after their death.
- 63RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloRogerEbert.comMonica CastilloFar from feeling like a eulogy, the tone of 306 Hollywood is magnificently playful.
- 60The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergA family portrait that plunges into what will strike many viewers as T.M.I. territory, the documentary 306 Hollywood makes for morbid, at times insufferable viewing. But its solipsism is part of its message.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe universal truths are banal, the narcissistic navel gazing in this episode of “Hoarders” just inspires eye rolling. 306 Hollywood is a home movie best left to the home it was shot in.