7.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Documentary • 2025 • 172 min
Videoheaven (2025)
Videoheaven (2025)
Overview
Videoheaven is a 2025 documentary by Alex Ross Perry tracing the cultural life of the neighborhood video rental store from the 1980s onward, narrated by Maya Hawke and built from archival film and television footage. The Progressive label is modest and mostly driven by the film's framing choices. It rehabilitates the image of the obsessive video-store clerk and gives screen time to films like The Watermelon Woman, signaling an interest in whose film culture gets remembered. No political argument is made outright. Religion, family values, and identity themes are essentially absent. This is a cinephile essay film, and its leanings come through curation rather than any direct ideological statement.
Starring Cast
Maya Hawke
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Videoheaven is a 2025 documentary by Alex Ross Perry tracing the cultural life of the neighborhood video rental store from the 1980s onward, narrated by Maya Hawke and built from archival film and television footage. The Progressive label is modest and mostly driven by the film's framing choices. It rehabilitates the image of the obsessive video-store clerk and gives screen time to films like The Watermelon Woman, signaling an interest in whose film culture gets remembered. No political argument is made outright. Religion, family values, and identity themes are essentially absent. This is a cinephile essay film, and its leanings come through curation rather than any direct ideological statement.
Starring Cast
Maya Hawke
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Not Rated
The film's central subject is the history and cultural role of video stores, a topic without inherent left or right valence in US discourse. Its narrative frames the subject as a neutral chronicle of industry change, community formation, and technological shifts, with no identifiable ideological problem or solution.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The documentary uses a white female narrator and archival footage to explore video store culture in American media, focusing on defending the archetype of the film-nerd clerk against unflattering portrayals while incorporating some discussion of diverse films like The Watermelon Woman.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The film is a documentary collage examining the cultural history of video rental stores through archival footage and narration, with no central narrative or meaningful depiction of family structures, marriage, parenting, or related values.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
Videoheaven is a documentary essay film exploring the cultural history of video stores through archival footage and narration, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
Videoheaven is a documentary on the rise and fall of video rental stores and their cultural impact, assembled from archival footage and narrated by Maya Hawke, with no transgender characters or themes present.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Videoheaven is a documentary essay film compiling archival footage of video stores in cinema and culture, narrated by Maya Hawke, with no narrative characters or adaptations involving recast legacy figures.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Videoheaven is a documentary essay film compiling archival footage from existing movies and TV shows about video stores, with Maya Hawke providing narration. No new character portrayals or adaptations occur.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
6.0
Critic Ratings
8.3
7.1
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