American Honey (2016)

Reno January 14, 2017

★ 7/10

**To redefine the life and to discover the love.** From the British director of 'Fish Tank' fame, this is another a young struggling girl's story. Being brought up in a low income and abusive family, and because of that trying to redefine the life. Not about heading the wrong way like drugs and other related stuffs. So this is the story of an older teen girl named Star who flees the home to find her new life and love. It all begins when she meets a youngster in a supermarket and since then she followed him everywhere. Actually the film focused to tell a gang of youth who are door to door magazine subscription dealers. They travel all over the country and have all kinds of enjoyment. In order to stay in the group, Star has to prove her worth. She reserves her spot, but working on her own way. I always feared the narration might go to take a nasty twist. There came a couple scenes ne…

DEzzNutz1001 May 20, 2017

★ 3/10

Pointless and terrible film that leads to nowhere. The Director of Fish Tank, was not able to capture lighting in a bottle twice. Most of the movie is spent in a van listening to rap music, the other large part is the boring romance story with a protagonist who seemed better to be a prostitute, then a door to door salesperson. Other characters are introduced but no depth is added to these characters, even though we spend a lot of time in a van with them. The movie doesnt even pay off with the Conclusion it seemingly leads too, it just ends.

badelf May 4, 2026

★ 7/10

**American Honey (2016)** _Directed by Andrea Arnold_ This is Jack Kerouac for the Millennial generation, the first cohort that can't buy houses, can't find meaningful work, and stares directly into a hopeless, dystopian future with no illusions left. American Honey joins a lineage of films about economic desperation and systemic abandonment — Dogville, Requiem for a Dream, Parasite, for example. But where those films found formal inventiveness or narrative urgency, Andrea Arnold's road movie drowns in its own sprawl. I was genuinely looking forward to this, coming from the auteur who gave us Bird and Fish Tank, films that knew exactly how long they needed to be and what they were saying. American Honey is disappointing precisely because Arnold's talent is visible throughout, but buried under bloat. Sasha Lane, in her debut, did a fabulous job. She plays Star with raw authe…