Sollers Point

The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 26, 2017.^[5] Shortly after, Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired U.S. distribution rights.^[6] It was released theatrically on May 18, 2018.^[7]

As of August 2020^[update], 85% of the 27 critics reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 6.85/10.^[8] Richard Brody, reviewing the film for The New Yorker, wrote: "[Sollers Point] plunges into some of the gravest and ugliest aspects of modern American life and pulls them to the fore in a chilling intimacy . . . . Porterfield gently but unshrinkingly touches some of the most inflamed and sensitive places of American society, including the relentless strains of racism, the threat of unemployment, the contraband economy, the horrors of incarceration, the ravages of addiction, the ubiquity of gun violence. . . . In “Sollers Point,” Porterfield reaches a synthesis of his efforts, or, rather, reaches a new stage of his art—the film is endowed with a quietly turbulent and complex fusion of personal observation and candid pain, local specificity and a wide-spectrum vision of politics at large."^[9]

The film was named a Critic's Pick by the New York Times^[10] and one of the 10 Best Movies of the Year by Vanity Fair.^[11] In his Vanity Fair recap, K. Austin Collins called Sollers Point "a subtle, razor-sharp portrait of working-class Baltimore" featuring "a wide-angle, all-encompassing sense of community" and "a star-making performance" by Lombardi.

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• Sollers Point at IMDb