In Seattle, a large group of people gather for one weekend every month to play a live action role-playing game at an event called Nero. They dress as wizards, lizards, gnomes, and creatures they’ve invented to battle with harmless swords and throw beanbags (potions) at one another.
Amazingly, director Cullen Hoback mostly manages to avoid playing the participants for laughs and instead looks at the outcasts as a family. Most of the interest here is in seeing a world we didn’t previously know existed, but the movie really succeeds when it gives insight into the things we know well, like belonging, ambition, the politics of organizations, and fantasy.
MAYBE SO (6/10)
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