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White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch

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United States · 2022
1h 28m
Director Alison Klayman
Starring Benjamin O'Keefe
Genre Documentary

This documentary explores Abercrombie & Fitch's pop culture reign in the late '90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion. The film features interviews with former employees and reframes Abercrombie's carefully-crafted narrative around what it means to be cool, good-looking, and American.

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The Playlist by Christian Gallichio

When the film drifts into the larger discourse of Abercrombie’s fall, it favors simplistic answers — namely the democratization of social media — over a more critical interrogation of why Abercrombie fell, and how they are still trying to claw their way back to relevancy.

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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

Cathartic and outrageous as it can be to hear the juicy — but wildly unsurprising — details of how Abercrombie operated behind the scenes, Klayman’s film doesn’t ground them in any greater sociopolitical context.

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RogerEbert.com by Nick Allen

While this documentary from Alison Klayman can be insightful in taking us inside a phenomenon, its approach can be too broad, with filmmaking that relies on its own weaning sense of trendy.

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Screen Daily by Nikki Baughan

It is a fascinating, horrifying story and Klayman eschews any tricks or gimmicks — bar some lively collage animation — to allow this explosive narrative to evolve through the eye-opening experiences of those who lived it.

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