Depart No Hint, the best-reviewed film ever on Rotten Tomatoes, is about to depart Netflix

Should you’re in search of one thing to stream at this time when you’ve bought break day from work, you possibly can most likely do so much worse than Depart No Hint — a 2018 indie drama from Bleecker Road starring Ben Foster as the daddy of a 13-year-old daughter. Their characters reside in an enormous city park in Portland, Oregon, principally attempting to remain below the radar and off the grid. Ultimately, the authorities catch as much as them and power Foster’s character (an Iraq conflict veteran) and his daughter to stick to extra conventional methods of life.

The film, from director Debra Granik, is nothing wanting a masterpiece, and it’s primarily based on My Abandonment, a 2009 novel by Peter Rock. Each the ebook, and the film model of Depart No Hint, are lovely, hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound — whereas the film can also be reportedly the most-reviewed with a 100% approval score within the historical past of Rotten Tomatoes.

It’s additionally leaving Netflix tomorrow, on July 4. However to not fear should you’re studying this too late; after at this time, you possibly can nonetheless additionally get the movie from digital rental or buy websites like Amazon or Apple’s iTunes.

Popular culture critic Isaac Felderb, writing on Twitter, has raved about Depart No Hint that it’s “one of many nice current American movies. An aching portrait of nature, nurture, and life on the margins that captures the reality of its characters, one retreating as the opposite emerges, amid the vivid flourishing of their atmosphere.”

The one hundred pc critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes comes from 252 critiques. Like this 3.5/4 assessment from certainly one of my private favourite critics, ReelViews’ James Berardinelli: “Sometimes uplifting and typically heartbreaking, it’s nothing lower than elegant.”

I can’t reward the film sufficient, from the best way the cinematography makes the lushness of the Pacific Northwest come alive to the gripping lead performances from Foster and Thomasin McKenzie as his teenage daughter. Depart No Hint is totally a must-watch.