Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- irreverent
- cringe-inducing
- provocative
- experimental movie night
- celebrity satire night
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film provocative and conceptually interesting but too inscrutable and unconvinced by its prolonged celebrity-performance experiment.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Casey Affleck's camera observes Joaquin Phoenix's public collapse and rap ambitions while critics and viewers are encouraged to question the footage's status.
Phoenix plays an exaggerated version of himself quitting acting, pursuing hip hop, and exposing private behavior for the camera.
The film combines humiliating incidents, explicit behavior, bad rapping, and media scrutiny as an extended experiment in celebrity spectatorship.
Handheld camera observation follows Phoenix at home, in rehearsals, during parties, and in confrontational encounters.
Films like I'm Still Here, and why
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
shares mockumentary form, celebrity performance, and ambiguity between documentary truth and staged satire
The Truman Show
shares performance-art provocation, media manipulation, and an intentionally unstable public persona
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
shares music-industry satire, cringe comedy, and a fictionalized performer constructing an outrageous persona
Movie Details
- Director
- Casey Affleck
- Release Date
- 2010-09-10
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 (417)
Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Antony Langdon
- Carey Perloff
- Larry McHale
- Casey Affleck
- Jack Nicholson
- Billy Crystal
- Danny Glover
- Bruce Willis
- Robin Wright
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Dox Amazon Channel, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is I'm Still Here about?
- A deliberately murky mockumentary follows Joaquin Phoenix as he abandons acting for an outrageous, humiliating hip hop reinvention.
- What is I'm Still Here like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of I'm Still Here as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is I'm Still Here violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in I'm Still Here as mild.
- What did critics think of I'm Still Here?
- Critics broadly found the film provocative and conceptually interesting but too inscrutable and unconvinced by its prolonged celebrity-performance experiment.
- Which films are like I'm Still Here?
- Films with a similar feel include Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Truman Show, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.
- How long is I'm Still Here?
- I'm Still Here runs 107 minutes.
- Where can I watch I'm Still Here?
- In United States, I'm Still Here streams on Dox Amazon Channel, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel.
