At first, “Uncle Kent 2” presents itself as a prolonged inside joke on the microbudget American film scene — the kind of referential conceit with the capacity to please the same limited crowd familiar ...

An unthinkably self-indulgent sequel whose primary comic conceit is that it's an unthinkably self-indulgent sequel, "Uncle Kent 2″ — or "Uncle Kent 2!" onscreen — is such an inside joke that it's ...

The movie opens — in a segment directed by Swanberg — with Osborn himself pitching the premise for the sequel. The ensuing odyssey finds Osborn coping with a hilariously annoying song stuck in his ...

Uncle Kent 2 is one of those movies that makes you think, “Why is this here?” Even Joe Swanberg, the director of the first Uncle Kent, turns up (and directs the first twelve minutes) to tell our ...

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SUNDANCE REVIEW: Uncle Kent Mumblecore auteur Joe Swanberg looks ahead to middle age (but clearly doesn't look forward to it) in Uncle Kent, a diverting character study whose mildly racy comedy should ...

Whereas many directors improve as their careers progress, Joe Swanberg’s films seem to be getting scrappier with each successive entry. In “Uncle Kent,” the mumblecore director downgrades to shooting ...