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- The only real positives here is Taylour Paige's lead performance as the titular Zola, and the film does a fine job of capturing the glamorous but often times sketchy seedy underbelly of Tampa, Florida. But overall, it's flashy but mostly just seems to fall back on its own bling for the sake of show and to compensate for lack of substance.
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Jul 1, 2021 · Over the course of the next 148 Tweets, Zola recounted a tale of taking a spontaneous road trip to Florida with a woman named Jessica, hoping to get some lucrative stripping gigs. But then Zola found herself roped into a crazy whirl of sex work, pimps, guns, not to mention a dude falling off a balcony.
Zola captures the stranger-than-fiction appeal of the viral Twitter thread that inspired it -- and announces director/co-writer Janicza Bravo as a filmmaker to watch. Read Critics Reviews.
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Jun 29, 2021 · ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! A notorious tweetstorm arrives onscreen, starring Taylour Paige and Riley Keough. Share full article. Janicza Bravo narrates a sequence from her...
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Aug 4, 2021 · Zola review – pulp-factual viral tweet becomes an icily slick urban thriller. Aziah ‘Zola’ Wells’s viral story of her crazily dangerous 2015 trip to Florida in search of pole-dancing money is...
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Jun 29, 2021 · There are eyes, and then there are Taylour Paige's eyes. In Zola, a crackling, absurdist road trip movie inspired by a crackling, absurdist Twitter thread, the camera's gaze is frequently drawn...
Jun 30, 2021 · 'Zola' movie review: Film based on viral Twitter thread makes for a wild and surprisingly nuanced retelling - The Washington Post. Advertisement. This article was published more than 2 years...
Jun 25, 2021 · Is a Wild Road Trip Movie That Works Against All Odds. 4 minute read. By Stephanie Zacharek. June 24, 2021 10:01 PM EDT. B ecause humankind will never stop inventing new forms for old stories, it...
