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Lenny Cooke

In this quintessentially American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of Lenny Cooke, who was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America in 2001 but ends up going undrafted, and becomes a journeyman playing in little-known leagues across the world now.
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New York Times
December 05, 2013
Like a dismaying coming-of-age movie in which little is learned beyond the fickle chemistry between dreams and business.
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Shared Darkness
December 15, 2013
Lazy, fly-on-the-wall filmmaking. The Safdie brothers have the benefit of some rare extant footage, but absolutely no idea how to shape it into an interesting narrative.
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Under the Radar
June 10, 2016
The film's informed voyeuristic style ... allows Cooke's actions to speak louder than any words the often soft spoken protagonist might have shed on his life.
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Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2013
A compellingly unconventional, elliptical sports documentary that explores the mysterious realm of might-have-been.
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PopMatters
December 30, 2013
It's clear enough that even if his turns into a cautionary tale, his is also the story shared by many more kids than LeBron's.
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AV Club
December 05, 2013
The question of why Cooke's career never materialized hangs over the movie, but is never answered. What emerges instead is a portrait of a talented teenager being readied ... for a future that doesn't arrive.
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Film Comment Magazine
December 30, 2013
That the first half of the film is largely older footage (previously shot for an earlier project by Adam Shopkorn) endows it with wistfulness. No matter how merry the events, they're obviously distant fragments of a broken dream.
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New York Daily News
December 05, 2013
It's a small film, but as a cautionary tale? Swish!
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Chicago Reader
December 05, 2013
It's a spirited experiment in documentary form, with the directors showing great imagination in their fusion of new and archival footage, and their portrait of Cooke, assembled largely from offhand moments, conveying a sharp dramatic sensibility.
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The Dissolve
December 03, 2013
How could a top prospect drop off the map within a year? That's the cautionary tale spun by Lenny Cooke, a troubling, artfully constructed documentary.
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FILMINK (Australia)
April 22, 2016
The Safdies have done remarkably well in resurrecting an old project, which although lacking in production value, simply needed to be seen by the world.
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San Francisco Chronicle
December 19, 2013
Filmmakers Benny and Josh Safdie use real-time footage to follow this hopeful, affable young man as he becomes a bitter has-been over the course of a decade.
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