Overview
- The 101-minute documentary premiered during Sundance’s opening days as Wilson’s first feature film.
- Critics say it often feels like a feature-length How To with John Wilson, retaining his lo-fi visuals, dry narration, and digressive structure.
- Concrete serves as a lens for themes of urban infrastructure, impermanence, and mortality, launching from a Hallmark-movie seminar attended during the 2023 WGA strike.
- Coverage details financing struggles and a creative lull as Wilson amassed roughly 140 hours of footage and undertook research trips from Rome to U.S. locations and industry conventions.
- Early reactions praise the humor and idiosyncratic voice, with several reviews noting stretches that meander or lose momentum, and highlighting Jack Macco as a recurring emotional thread.