by Glenn Sumi on January 10th, 2021 at 3:33 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
Ten months of pandemic lockdown has provided an opportunity to purge those closets, declutter those shelves and maybe get around to doing some minor renovations. Or maybe you’ve done the opposite and gone online-shopping-happy.
Whatever your consumer habits, the new Netflix doc
The Minimalists: Less Is Now might just inspire you to pare down the things in your life to the essentials and concentrate on what’s really important. It’s too bad the short doc comes up empty on new revelations.
The basic 53-minute film uses the lives and philosophies of the acclaimed duo dubbed The Minimalists (Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus) to present some sobering facts about our spending habits and tendency to hoard. (One of the most popular quotes it kicks off the film’s trailer states that the average American house contains more than 300,000 items.)
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Review: Netflix doc The Minimalists comes up empty
Netflix film about the creators of The Minimalist movement is ironically weighed down by too much stuff By Glenn Sumi
Joshua Fields Millburn (left) and Ryan Nicodemus help spread the minimalist message.
THE MINIMALISTS: LESS IS NOW (Matt D’Avella). 53 minutes. Now streaming on Netflix. Rating:
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Ten months of pandemic lockdown has provided an opportunity to purge those closets, declutter those shelves and maybe get around to doing some minor renovations. Or maybe you’ve done the opposite and gone online-shopping-happy. Whatever your consumer habits, the new Netflix doc The Minimalists: Less Is Now might just inspire you to pare down the things in your life to the essentials and concentrate on what’s really important. It’s too bad the short doc comes up empty on new revelations.
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