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Negative reviews
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3.0
For all its mode bending gamesmanship, American Animals is ultimately a fairly straightforward heist movie, albeit a stylish and engaging one.
Av Club
3.0
Writer director Bart Laytons approach is half forensic, half surreal, a docudrama bedazzled by fourth wall breaks and winking what ifs.
EW
4.5
A raw, abrasive call for an adjustment in the way we see each other.
Rogerebert
1.9
But what makes a heist movie fun is that its robbers are punching up, not down.
Rogerebert
4.0
The film eventually captures the horrible weight of committing a crime.
Common Sense Media
3.0
But amusement isnt the problem these kids were perfectly able to amuse themselves.
Indie Wire
4.5
But its Keoghan who strikes softest and deepest as the anxious, tender heart of the operation, currents of moral caution and sporadic, exhilarated aba ..
Variety
5.0
With enormous flair, Layton is dramatising a staggeringly daring and stupid robbery attempted by college students, which in its naivety, its weird inn ..
The Guardian
3.1
As he showed in The Imposter, writer director Bart Layton knows how to spin a compelling yarn.
4.5
A supremely crafted doc/fiction hybrid which is genuinely innovative, pleasingly entertaining and deliciously more than the sum of its parts.
Screen Daily
2.0
The heist genre is one thats been done to death, but with American Animals, filmmaker Bart Layton manages to pull off something wholly unique.
Collider
1.5
The bigger problem is that stupidity just isnt a very interesting subject.
Vulture
3.5
American Animals offers a truly poignant look at what it costs us to cross an invisible line between right and wrong.
4.5
Moreover, Layton stylishly smashes true crime into the film obsessions that powered the man child posse. Part The Thin Blue Line, part The Taking of P ..
2.5
Its none of those a tame and toothless creature that is neither fish nor fowl.
The New York Times
2.3
American Animals is a rare thing, truth thats legitimately stranger than fiction.
Paste Magazine
3.0
Our quartet doesnt plan very well, doesnt think very clearly, and seems inspired by nothing beyond the aforementioned boredom as well as a mutually in ..
IGN
4.0
Its really the style and performances, more than the pseudo experimental structure Layton has chosen, that keep the film grabby.
Telegraph
4.5
While the participants in American Animals only imagine theyre different, the film about them is the real deal.
4.0
The only problem is that Layton doesnt quite know what tone he wanted to achieve.
The Young Folks
4.0
American Animals is sharp, smart, often bravura filmmaking, a terrifically entertaining mix of fast facts and pulp fiction. But beneath the flash is a ..
4.0
Its interesting that AMERICAN ANIMALS is one of the few movies in recent memory where I didnt feel the leads had to be likable.
JoBlo
3.8
Reality hits the young men hard, even if morality never sinks in.
Philly
3.0
Still, though the impact may be ephemeral, its potent while youre watching.
One Guys Opinion
1.5
It promises that crime doesnt pay but it can get you in the movies.
Village Voice
4.4
But the truth is a lot more like Masterminds, disorganized mayhem masterminded by morons, or at least people who dont know what theyre doing.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
Theres a psychological examination worth pursuing here, but American Animals is too soft on the subjects and the filmmaking draws attention to itself.
Blu Ray
1.5
meticulous preparations begin with typing how to plan a heist into Google and continue with watching every heist film ever made, though they manage to ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
Its complicated, and its unfortunate that Layton doesnt take full advantage of the obvious contradictions within the stories of these men.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Laytons movie is slick, perhaps a little too slick at times (compositions are sometimes too studied), but the filmmaker is talented...Interviews with ..
2.0
There are more than two sides to this tale, however, and the filmmakers give us the fun and interesting view of a crime gone comically bad.
3.8
Filmmaker Bart Layton punctuates American Animals with interviews with the storys real life figures...
Reel Film Reviews
4.5
In additional to his verbal performance, which is great, physical performance in this movie is so impressive in the sense that, depending on his postu ..
You Tube
4.0
The movie reaches strange and savage heights...not just because it seems to be engaging with huge philosophical questions about the nature of identity ..
The Times
2.5
This sort of self awareness usually works on me like catnip, but Laytons concept of meta cinema feels extremely basic.
News Review
3.0
At times, the film seems as hardboiled as the heist thrillers that Warren and Spencer study on DVD but the director never loses sight of the absurdity ..
Independent
3.8
At one point, Spencer asks, Ever feel like youre waiting for something to happen but you dont know what it is The question nags at the film and its au ..
Rolling Stone
5.0
Because as in I, Tonya, the way each person tells the story doesnt quite add up.
Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Brashly confident Warren (Evan Peters, American Horror Story), meanwhile, glibly dismissive of his athletic scholarship, sees the chance to prove hes ..
The Wrap
3.8
By the time Warrens squaring his shoulders to tase the rare books librarian (Ann Dowd, always a treat), American Animals has veered from sorta true cr ..
New York Post
4.5
With enormous flair, Layton is dramatising a staggeringly daring and stupid robbery attempted by college students, which in its naivety, its weird inn ..
The Guardian
4.0
But heres what makes the movie more than the typical goofy crime gone wrong story.
Az Central
4.0
And beyond the heist movie (and who doesnt love a heist movie) there is an interesting question that lifts this film above the ordinary (which is appo ..
Smh
4.0
The best quasi docu comedy of the year so far about a gang of not quite criminal masterminds stealing rare books.
Mountain X
4.5
MONDELLO: When hes not following Warrens lead, Spencer is reasonably studious.
Npr
4.5
Perhaps the filmmaker doesnt have everything right, but even the participants cant entirely agree on what happened.
Npr
2.5
It hits the usual genre beats, and plays a predictable rock soundtrack as it lurches between comedy and drama, but neither the story nor the character ..
Toronto Star
3.0
The short train journey to New York counts as a daring adventure for Agnes.
Daily Mail
5.0
Directed with urgency but also an overriding sense of loss and folly, American Animals is an interesting paradox: a cautionary tale that easily disabu ..
Flim List
1.5
Eighth Grade is an insular film, teasing out larger observations about the confluence of awkward and unfamiliar territory.
Film Inquiry
1.5
Needless to say, things dont unfold the way Spencer and Warren expected.
Film Inquiry
3.0
Shallow, if stylishly suspenseful, relating a criminal caper that goes awry.
Susang Ranger
3.8
American Animals is one fact based heist frolic with a youthful slant that works in spite of itself.
Observer
4.0
An ingenious fusion of documentary and docudrama, American Animals fires a seemingly conventional heist film through a prism of questionable truth, ab ..
Flickering Myth
3.0
American Animals certainly isnt the most exciting or intense heist film, and definitely isnt something to write home about, but again, that blurring o ..
Flickering Myth
4.5
The fascinating insights of American Animals come from exploring just why these four college students decided to steal the books in the first place.
Flim Threet
4.5
Bart Laytons movie tells a true story, more or less, with an emphasis on the stories that the characters tell themselves, and the inevitable trouble t ..
New Yorker
4.0
The complex relationship between truth and fiction lies at the very heart of this fascinating crime film.
Express
2.0
The conflict between differing points of view and retrospective perspective express the movies themes of shaping ones reality by acting as though your ..
The Film Stage
3.5
American Animals is a well shot film with great performances and intriguing ideas that will have audiences pondering.
Bullz-Eye
3.8
The drama palpably, potently conveys the groups misgivings, their jangling nerves, the foolhardy resignation pushing them on despite themselves.
Boston Globe
1.5
There isnt much thats ambiguous about the robbery that Warren Lipka, Spencer Reinhard, Chas Allen, and Eric Borsuk ineptly committed in their college ..
The Atlantic
4.5
Bart Laytons tentative foray into fictional narrative is a success in melding the best personal aspects of documentary journalism with the emotional i ..
Birth Movies Death
4.5
Director Bart Layton (The Imposter) clearly knows what hes doing, though he explores it through a structure that doesnt quite work.
Birth Movies Death
4.0
Other directors have folded real world figures into fictional narratives. Its the scale of the invasion that sets Laytons project apart.
Standard
2.0
Bart Layton adds a meaty layer of social realism to the film. Get out your knife and fork; this is one movie you can really sink your teeth into.
Coles Mithey
4.5
American Animals is one of the most confidently executed films Ive ever seen, and in the end, the details of the case, like the uncertainty of memory, ..
Pajiba
3.8
Even if I dont think the constant tonal shifts work as well as I imagine Layton wanted them to, American Animals is still strong on more than enough l ..
Movie Freak
3.0
American Animals is one of the years smartest, most captivating films, and Layton stages it with the precision of a perfect crime.
Detroit News
3.5
A fine movie which would also make for a ripping multi part podcast.
Herald Sun
3.0
Spencer (Barry Keoghan) wants to be an artist, but he doesnt think hes experienced the requisite pain and suffering to make anything worth seeing.
Consequence Of Sound
1.5
The movie doesnt simply cut back and forth between interview and scripted re enactment.
Vox
4.0
American Animals plays out as a hall of mirrors examination of responsibility and memory, both of which are aggravated by the heedlessness of these en ..
Now Toronto
4.5
Their largest obstacle: staunch library B.J. Gooch (a perfect Ann Dowd).
Film School Rejects
1.5
...we know these guys are doomed to failure, we just dont know exactly how or how much collateral damage theyll do in the process.
Film Ink
1.5
American Animals conjures a nifty, pit of your stomach feeling like when you know youve blown it but theres no going back.
Maki At The Movies
4.5
The impeccably cast leading men, and their great comedic timing, make for an adrenaline fuelled field trip.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
From the absurd story of four self centred and bored friends, Layton has created a powerful hybrid film which decries, with entertaining panache and u ..
Lw Lies
4.0
Wildly, gleefully entertaining; I cant recommend it enough ... Layton sets up and maintains a terrific, jovial tone, and even when things get heavy, w ..
Abc
1.5
What initially appears to be a slight, if entertaining, true crime heist romp, in fact, hides untold depths in a muscular offering.
Nz Herald
3.5
Which makes me wonder if Layton should have jettisoned the films documentary elements entirely.
The Stranger
4.5
This is a film that takes deep pleasure in itself. Much of the time, you will be pleased with it too.
Ft
4.0
Its a very fine film, and thoroughly debunks a barbaric practice.
Independent Ie
5.0
Armed with a tender, naturalistic screenplay and a charming, committed ensemble, The Farewell is a wonderfully acted family drama, and a note perfect ..
Independent Ie
4.0
What a little jewel of a film this is. Sumptuous looking... excellently acted and scripted, light on its feet but filled with a sense of purpose, and, ..
Independent Ie
4.0
Having already blurred the lines between drama and documentary with his Bafta winning 2012 debut The Imposter, Bart Layton now mashes them together to ..
Stuff
4.0
The hazy difference in the storys events and details depending on who is recalling is a masterstroke.
The Sun
1.5
But the robbery isnt sophisticated enough on its own to hold ones interest, and Laytons tactic of cutting to the members of the real life robbery team ..
Wsj
5.0
Combining narrative with talking head interviews, and by having them play off each other as the story progresses, Layton has synthesized a scathingly ..
Killer Movie Reviews
3.0
It doesnt, and thats what makes the movies deadly serious ending so disquieting.
Patriot Ledger
3.5
I wish it had a little more on its mind, but it mostly works as an enjoyable piece of entertainment that doesnt need too much analysis to appreciate.
Film
4.0
Bart Laytons wildly entertaining and inventive American Animals, which is like Tarantinos iconic heist flick and a docudrama rolled into one.
Punch Drunk Critics
1.5
The heisters themselves, now just over 30, look back philosophically, with a Camuslike mixture of honesty and bland self justification.
Straight
4.0
It is a meticulous and highly creative exploration into the vagaries of human nature.
Movie Web
4.0
In pleasant contrast, AA is a narrative drama wherein beats the heart of a documentary.
Sandiego Reader
4.0
The bleak comedy of the films first half gives way to a more sombre mood in the second.
Straits Times
4.0
Any movie that pays homage to that great film knows exactly what it is doing, at least if you ask me.
Dead Line
4.0
Not everything about American Animals quite holds together: theres a lot about the characters thats left unexplored, and the denouement takes a little ..
One Room With A View
4.5
However, writer/director Bart Layton manages to make it work for American Animals.
Solzy At The Movies
4.0
The central metaphor of Ryans otherwise ace screenplay doesnt quite work, and there is a sense that the picture ends just as it gets going.
Flavor Wire
4.4
Layton entwines documentary and performance to create a true crime heist film. The result is something that feels experimental.
Awards Circuit
4.5
American Animals is a different kind of movie, a truly electrifying story with purpose and meaning but one that has also given us a new form of storyt ..
Bitly
4.0
From minute one, the film comes in steamrolling with madcap confidence and assured style.
The Skinny
4.5
At its core, though, its a trenchant exploration of the damaging disconnect that exists between the unremarkable lives of its relatively privileged pr ..
Scots Man
3.0
American Animals, alas, doesnt feature nearly enough of those points to justify such experimentation.
Film Avclub
4.5
The result is a movie thats like Oceans Eleven meets I, Tonya, with a dash of college boy buffoonery and a sprinkle of Dateline seriousness.
The Daily Beast
3.0
The story is quite compelling, and Layton handles the scenes with the four actors quite efficiently, delivering a solid heist picture that checks off ..
Bowling Green Daily News
3.5
Though its mostly doing the expected thing, American Animals does it with great energy.
Alternate Ending
4.5
An examination of the potentially dangerous entitlement of bored young men.
Lainey Gossip
5.0
Director Bart Laytons heist yarn is an exhilarating exercise in art imitating life (that was imitating art).
Seattle Times
4.5
American Animals is a stylish, entertaining and disturbing movie, a well worn tale thats familiar and, paradoxically, brand new.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
Heres a movie that takes a tattered genre and manages to add some fresh elements to it.
Clclt
1.5
Layton shatters the brittle lines of cinematic convention, then pieces the jagged edges back together to form a decoupage of fiction and reality.
Fresh Fiction
5.0
American Animals is a really smart movie about complete knuckleheads.
Seven Day Svt
4.5
It doesnt, of course, although the notion isnt that far removed from Laytons perceptive and inventive approach.
Concrete Play Ground
1.5
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National Post
1.5
Though ambitious, this documentary feature hybrid, which includes both actors and the real life characters they play, fails to fully engage or inspire ..
Original Cin
4.0
American Animals, like the young thieves whose story it tells, seeks inspiration from classic movies, but it transcends this foundation in a probing l ..
The Australian
5.0
Immensely crafted with detailed passion, commitment, and respect to the people associated to this unfortunate crime, American Animals is a powerful fi ..
Rendy Reviews
4.5
American Animals manages to be simultaneously fast paced and contemplative.
New States Man
3.5
Spencer wants to be an artist but doesnt think hes suffered; Warrens upbringing led him to believe he is destined for unspecified greatness.
New City Film
3.0
Its also, to be honest, a tad boring, despite Hardys valiant attempt to give the character a moral heart.The best of the Marvel films have real person ..
Tiny Url
3.8
Hilarity doesnt exactly ensue, but this disposable tissue nevertheless has its moments.
Film Frenzy
3.8
A masterful portrait of a priest struggling with his inner torments, and the external realities of the church and the world.
Sf Examiner
3.5
The leisurely paced comedy manages to be both droll and sincerely touching.
Us Magazine
4.0
His blending of documentary subjects with narrative filmmaking brings up questions of authenticity.
Spectrum Culture
3.8
Its a relief, always, to wake up from a dream like that, but American Animals offers the spectacle of guys who cant wake up.
Sf Chronicle
1.5
As a thriller about a mishandled heist, American Animals becomes quite a lot of fun in the third act.
Mid West Film Journal
1.5
The bigger problem is that stupidity just isnt a very interesting subject.
Vulture
2.0
Special mention must be given to the performance of young Irish rising star Barry Keoghan.
Film Ireland
4.5
What makes the movie good is that it is also a condemnation of same, illustrating just how quickly those worries burn off in the face of the alternati ..
Battleship Pretension
3.0
While dedicated cast works hard to make the characters seem real, theyre never anything but unpleasant and staggeringly deluded.
Adelaide Review
3.5
He pesters Spencer while hes working in a supermarket about fulfilling their lives.
Impulse Gamer
3.0
Layton blends documentary and dramatization in a way that I dont think Ive seen before, allowing each half to comment on the other.
Crooked Marquee
4.0
While this is noticeable due to how fast and edgy the film comes out of the gate, it doesnt last long.
Geek Girl Authority
4.0
It feels more like an entertaining work of fiction than a talking heads style doc.
Screen Zealots
4.4
You really can tell that a documentarian made this movie. Thats a compliment too.
Hollywood News
4.5
Director/writer Bart Layton delivers a snappy, delightfully imaginative film, reinterpreting and redefining the genre.
Kdhx
3.0
Occasionally fun and engaging, with an inventive storytelling mechanism and an only in reality tale, American Animals is ultimately hollow and ends in ..
4.5
Layton manages to successfully separate this true life film from other biographical films, mixing his re enactments with elements of documentary.
Iol Co Za
2.5
The problem with American Animals is that Bart Layton is too often enamored with his own style at the expense of having anything of value to say.
FanboyNation.com
4.5
American Animals is entertaining while answering the question most people have thought about at one time or another...If I tried to commit a crime, co ..
FlickDirect
4.5
His parents say they werent crazy about Warren (Evan Peters), a free spirit who lives on the wild side.
Leonard Mal
3.8
Instead of thinking what a lark this all is, we realize somebody is going to get hurt because of these jackasses.
Seattle Weekly
3.0
The true story of the robbery thats the focus of American Animals isnt so easy to discern and varies from actual participant to participant as memorie ..
Showbiz Junkies
4.5
It is a miracle that American Animals doesnt feel complicit in their rehabilitation.
Vogue
4.5
Real and make believe merge seamlessly in this true story of a rare books heist by students. Even knowing the outcome its hugely exciting, though what ..
Caution Spoilers
3.0
Storytellers, at the end of the day, are the greatest con artists, because the best of them know which strings to pull to make us believe.
City Beat
2.5
Its detached, technically competent, somewhat entertaining filmmaking thats rooted in too many layers of pastiche to register as creative.
Film Monthly
3.0
Without the documentary components, the film would still be more enjoyable than a lot of movies where...a crack team of beautiful misfits...steal a ba ..
Sa Current
3.5
The film works best when it digs into the American preoccupation with unlimited potential, the individuals specialness.
Maddwolf
4.0
Dont get it twisted: American Animals isnt merely a thought experiment about who gets to claim ownership of the truth. Its also a cracking heist flick ..
Student Edge
3.8
However, if theres one issue with the film, other than a drawn out third act, its the tone deaf thought of glorifying such a story.
812 Film Reviews
4.5
Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Backed by a killer soundtrack, American Animals is an exhilarating and bloody good movie from start to finish.
What I Watched Tonight
3.0
This slick caper boasts a unique storytelling approach and gripping moments of high tension but struggles with pacing and periphery character developm ..
Silver Screen Riot
4.4
In Bart Laytons immensely entertaining and unexpectedly thoughtful caper thriller, the line between taking part in a robbery and play acting in a movi ..
Host Madison
4.0
hanks to first person accounts of the real life robbers, not to mention Laytons highly tense direction, the ambiguity of the whole piece leaves you wa ..
Flick Feast
5.0
The trick of American Animals is that the film creates powerfully gripping drama, even as we inwardly beg for the lads to call a halt.
Metro News
4.5
But as the men learn, violent crime isnt fun, or glamorous its terrifying and anxiety laden and ultimately, doomed.
Hot Press
4.5
A little of this goes a long way, and Layton fortunately doesnt let it take over the movie.
Daily Public
4.5
This is an absorbing and thoughtful film of a woman of interminable strength and perseverance and a must see.
Awards Watch
4.5
As Layton makes sexy fiction an on screen accomplice to messier reality, he gradually focuses on the violent consequences that the young men prefer to ..
Projected Figures
3.5
American Animals seems a film better suited to admire than anything more profound.
3.0
Its an intriguing way of telling a story and one that ensures American Animals never feels like a straight heist movie.
Flickering Myth
4.5
Its an intriguing way of telling a story and one that ensures American Animals never feels like a straight heist movie.
Flickering Myth
1.5
A tonal mess of a movie that highlights inconsistencies between differing perspectives, while also reveling in the outright absurdity of what becomes ..
Sd City Beat
4.0
American Animals starts off like a fun heist movie until reality comes crashing down in a tonal shift that has no right to work as well as it does.
3.5
It is an impressive launch for writer/director Bart Layton, and an involving film.
We Are Movie Geeks
5.0
The other heist movie that can be found in theaters is the better of the two. This is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. Its a bit slow in the middle bu ..
Kxl
2.5
The actual caper has good Mission Impossible satire potential and there is the rashomon like presentation.
Its Just Movies
4.0
The boys are laughably inept heisters, but theres nothing remotely funny about the consequences of what theyre trying, and failing dismally, to do.
4.5
Layton creates an experience thats simply unlike anything thats come before it.
4.5
Truth is a fickle thing: look straight at it, and youll miss it every time.
Boulder Weekly
4.0
Crime doesnt pay and things certainly dont go exactly to plan, exemplified in the films centrepiece heist which is one of the most nerve wracking, swe ..
The National
3.0
While American Animals might be as ambitious as The Imposter, it fails to hit the same levels of brilliance though it remains an entertaining watch.
Film Pulse
5.0
Consummately acted, wonderfully paced and expertly told, this is one of the finest films of the year.
News Gazette
2.5
The most repugnant aspect of American Animals is the limitless sympathy it offers the privileged criminals who are its primary characters...
The Arts St L
4.5
American Animals is a hybrid, crime docu thriller that is stranger than fiction. ***
2.0
sounds like a fascinating tale on the surface of it. Regrettably, when given the gold star treatment it becomes clear that the players and events are ..
4.5
American Animals was an intriguing, well acted, and diabolically clever film.
Jamaica Gleaner
2.0
American Animals brilliantly confronts the epistemological conundrum at the heart of crafting truthful non fiction while simultaneously undercutting t ..
Dork Shelf
4.0
The then bumbling teenagers, now tired and middling men, are mirrored by charming, gripping performances from the young actors.
Culture Whisper
4.5
Its incredibly well acted and features insightful storytelling. This is one that shouldnt be missed.
4.5
Layton has a very contemporary skepticism that suits the era of fake news: a feeling that even and perhaps especially factual events become campfire s ..
Flicks
3.5
But, unlike Tarantino, its less of a woozy, blood splattered lark and more of a sober and sobering look at what happens when boredom, ego, testosteron ..
Houston Chronicle
4.5
entertaining thrill ride to vicariously experience the danger of creating needless drama simply because you were lucky enough to avoid the type many f ..
Buffalovibe
4.5
Shifting the docudrama balance to the latter half of the portmanteau, AMERICAN ANIMALS is well paced and inventive with the truth in a way that grips ..
3.0
The Catcher Was a Spy has a strong line up, but theres no chemistry, making this one feel like a giant swing and miss.
AXS.com
1.5
Saddled with scariest movie ever hype since Sundance, Hereditary is likely to suffer the usual backlash against festival acclaimed horror: That its to ..
48 Hills
2.0
More than mere truth or fiction, fact or fakery; American Animals is a repackaging of modern cultural mythology.
Dayton City Paper
4.5
This is a movie about spin, public relations, and the power of television.
France 24
4.5
Maybe they were just spoilt kids with a false sense of grandeur... Whatever it was, it made for a great and almost comical story, and Layton brings it ..
Ancho Rage Press
3.1
The combination of the two approaches is ambitious and daring and often exciting to watch, but like the bold and foolhardy crime it depicts, the end r ..
In Lander
1.5
The familys moral justifications for their theft (Whatevers in a store doesnt belong to anyone yet. . . .
The Gospel Coalition
2.0
Fascinating and daring, isolating small bursts of consolation in a deeply upsetting time while asking how enduring joy can exist for kids brought up o ..
Matt Pais
4.5
By blending the fleeting thrills and real world consequences of this wild heist, American Animals is true crime at its finest.
Pov Magazine
4.5
Some of the protagonists remember themselves in a better light than others, making American Animals a compelling exercise in unreliable narration.
The Movie Isle
3.5
That the crime is ultimately unsuccessful isnt a shocker the film acknowledges this within the first few moments but this detail hardly matters, becau ..
Spoiler TV
4.5
And we, the audience, get to vicariously experience an entertaining cautionary tale.
Filmnoir Foundation
0.5
The harder the movie worked at reminding me of its This is Based on a True Story bonafides I kept watching it through Fargo tinted True Story glasses
My New Plaid Pants
3.1
Neville weaves the narrative around some of Rogers favored concepts and core beliefs rather than providing a full birth to death biography of the mans ..
The Pitch Kc
4.5
It is a popcorn movie dripping with arthouse flair, and populated with intriguing and complex characters, be they real or performed.
Next Projection
4.5
American Animals is an incredibly smart take on perception and what it means to truthfully recount and tell a story as it happened
1.5
The film entices us to empathize with the leads so that it can hit us on the head with our own empathy. But thats the thing about empathy: It literall ..
Critics at Large
3.8
When dealing with a character who comes across larger than life, its easy to overplay the role. Peters has just enough energy and charisma to make thi ..
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