“Mass” is a new drama film that made its debut at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and garnered rave reviews.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Mass is a 2021 American drama film
- It was written and directed by Fran Kranz
- It is directorial debut
- Starring Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton
- The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021
- It is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2021, by Bleecker Street
- The film follows the parents of a victim of a school shooting meet face-to-face with the parents of the perpetrator
- In November 2019, it was announced that Fran Kranz would write and direct Mass in his feature directorial debut
- With Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton attached to star
- Mass had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021 in the Premieres section
- In May 2021, Bleecker Street acquired distribution rights to the film.
- By the end of its run, the film will have screened at film festivals in Busan, Charlottesville, London, San Sebastian, Sudbury, Woodstock and Zurich
- It is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2021
- In September 2021, Sky Cinema acquired the UK and Ireland distribution rights
- In the United States, the film was screened in four theaters; two in New York and two in Los Angeles
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 94% rating
- Based on 79 reviews
- With an average rating of 8.1/10
- The critics consensus says, “Mass requires a lot of its audience, but rewards that emotional labor with a raw look at grief that establishes writer-director Fran Kranz as a filmmaker of tremendous promise”
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100
- Based on 20 critics
- Indicating “generally favorable reviews”
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