‘Golden Exits’ Sundance Review: Miserable New Yorkers Torture Emily Browning

Alex Ross Perry film attracted a ton of stars– and saw nearly 30 people walk out

Golden Exits Sundace 2017

There’s a moment in Alex Ross Perry’s “Golden Exits” where star Emily Browning says she’s surprised that the high-brow job she just landed even exists.

Some members of the audience at Sundance’s Library Theater, where the film had its world premiere on Sunday evening, might have wondered the same about the film.

Browning plays 25-year-old Australian Naomi, in New York on a work visa as the assistant to archivist Nick (Adam Horovitz), who organizes and stores the minutia in the lives of important people. (They’re more common than you think, plus Beyonce has one.)

In Ross Perry’ New York, the struggling upper-middle and upper-upper class characters of this story torture and project their anxieties, failures and fears onto a visiting girl looking for love and enough friends to start a group text.

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