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Movie Review Movie Review American Honey A Movie Review American Honey A A American Honey Director Andrea Arnold Runtime 162 minutes Rating R Cast Sas ..
Av Club
3.2
It works best as a rowdy ensemble piece sort of a co ed, mobile, present day version of Richard Linklaters Everybody Wants Some, examining the frayed ..
Av Club
1.5
But American Honey doesnt rise and fall on the strength of its love story, if thats even what happens between Star and Jake.
Av Club
1.5
With every new Shia LaBeouf movie, I wonder whether it would be more entertaining to see the film or watch LaBeouf as he watches it.
We Got This Covered
3.0
Kids caught between childhood and adulthood, kids who are both victims and exploiters: These are the feral teens on view in Andrea Arnolds American Ho ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
British writer director Andrea Arnold heads to the US for a bold, flawed road movie about American teens There are so many extraordinary moments, beau ..
Time Out
3.5
Americas wide open spaces have rarely felt as claustrophobic as in American Honey, a US road trip largely undertaken in a box like white van, and shot ..
Screen Daily
4.5
Sasha Lane in American Honey.The verite nonfiction director arrives on the scene as a visitor, allowing the subjects to determine the action, while th ..
Vulture
4.8
Utterly absorbing and intensely moving, writer director Andrea Arnolds American Honey is one of those big, bold, swing for the fences societal portrai ..
Paste Magazine
4.4
Andrea Arnolds phenomenal work captures that propulsive teenage trait as well as anything in years.
Rogerebert
5.0
Two hours later, its also the chosen track for Star and her new friends, as they roll up to an oil field in their people carrier.
Telegraph
4.0
Some are quite exceptionally moving and exciting, whereas others meander.
The Young Folks
4.0
When reading The New York Times, director Andrea Arnold came across a story about teenagers going across the country selling magazine subscriptions.
The Young Folks
4.5
There really isnt a story in Arnolds three hour endeavor, but its not that important.
The Young Folks
4.5
American Honey Movie Review Powerful, audacious, as well as intimate, dirty, and epic, American Honeys brazen modern take on sex, adolescence, and the ..
Cinema Blend
5.0
Perhaps only Elvis granddaughter could be the leader of this gritty group of misfits.
Ny Daily News
3.5
American Honey 7 10 PLOT: A young woman (Sasha Lane) leaves her abusive home and joins up with a motley crew selling magazine subscriptions across the ..
JoBlo
5.0
4 out of 4 stars Title American Honey Written by Andrea Arnold Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough Genre Drama C ..
The Globe And Mail
4.0
Its never too late to respond to the souls adventure. Carol S. Pearson Director Andrea Arnold won the Prix du Jury at the 2006 Cannes Festival for her ..
Spirituality And Practice
2.2
Some of us, however, will resist its supposed edgy brilliance, and mainstream audiences will certainly find it a pretentious bore.
One Guys Opinion
1.5
Star in the sun Courtesy A24 In American Honey, her 162 minute fourth feature (and the first shes made in the U.S.), the British director Andrea Arnol ..
Village Voice
3.8
I had an editor early in my career who repeated her grandmothers favorite oath any time the culture served up fresh evidence of the dire and depraved ..
Rogers Movie Nation
5.0
In this entrancing road movie from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (), an abused teen (Sasha Lane) joins a cadre of other wayward young adults who sel ..
Chicago Reader
2.5
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik | October 7, 2016 Being poor is terrible, argues American Honey, but at least theres ..
Mark Reviews Movies
4.0
American Honey, starring Sasha Lane, is a window on to the sordid roadside economics of the part of America known as the flyover zone Andrea Arnolds n ..
The Times
3.8
American Honey wont make you feel very hopeful about The Kids These Days, but it may fill you with compassion for a generation of unwanted young Ameri ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.5
Tweet American Honey Daniel Barnes By This article was published on 10.20.16 Theyre about to drop the whitest mixtape of all time.
News Review
4.0
Review Our Score by Damon Wise Ditching gritty British drama to shoot an improvised road movie on the freeways of America, acclaimed realist director ..
Radio Times
4.0
For all its longueurs, it is a rich and rewarding reworking of the road movie genre a film that is as original as it is exasperating.
Independent
3.8
Steady as a preacher, free as a weed, goes the Lady Antebellum tune that gives filmmaker Andrea Arnolds teenage island of misfit toys road movie its t ..
Rolling Stone
4.0
These days, when personal grief becomes a public performance on social media, its heartening to have a book such as Katharine Smyths All the Lives We ..
Pop Matters
2.5
These days, when personal grief becomes a public performance on social media, its heartening to have a book such as Katharine Smyths All the Lives We ..
Pop Matters
4.0
These days, when personal grief becomes a public performance on social media, its heartening to have a book such as Katharine Smyths All the Lives We ..
Pop Matters
4.0
We dont only sell magazines.We also explore America, says Jake (Shia LaBeouf) in his eager pitch to recruit Star (Sasha Lane, in a glorious debut) as ..
Film Journal
4.0
Detractors may see little more than an overlong pop video indulgence in which on the road outsiders sing along to a celluloid jukebox soundtrack.
The Guardian
3.0
Andrea Arnold is the brilliant British film maker who created two modern gems in the social realist tradition in the form of Red Road and Fish Tank, a ..
The Guardian
4.0
Sasha Lane is terrific in her first film, starring as a young woman who joins a traveling group that sells magazines.
Az Central
3.0
She makes her getaway from home and finds herself being interviewed by Jakes boss, Krystal (Riley Keough), who seems capable of anything, including se ..
Smh
4.2
A raunchy, rapturous teenage dream, American Honey is indie cinemas latest attempt to capture the quicksilver magic of what it means to be young and r ..
Ew
5.0
Sasha Lane as Star in American Honey.A24 Films She grew up on a side of the road/ Where the church bells ring and strong love grows, begin the lyrics ..
Slate
5.0
American Honey Katherine McLaughlin 16 May 2016 Cannes 2016: Ambitious, enthralling US road trip movie from Britains Andrea Arnold This is British dir ..
Flim List
4.5
Andrea Arnold is without a doubt cinemas leading creator of stories depicting the trials and tribulations of working class women, with an entirely non ..
Film Inquiry
4.0
Director Andrea Arnold is now cinemas foremost chronicler of youthful passion.
Empire
3.0
Susan Grangers review of American Honey (A24) British filmmaker Andrea Arnold finds cinematic inspiration in a group of young American drifters, those ..
Susang Ranger
4.0
With curiosity and compassion, this epic length coming of age story looks at the hard corners of a splintered, dislocated America, but at the same tim ..
Common Sense Media
5.0
That habit may bein cinematic terms, at any ratethe least American thing about the film.
New Yorker
4.5
Few movies about teen age girls are dramas.Many are comedies; many more recent ones are post apocalyptic survivalist fantasies and, for that matter, h ..
New Yorker
5.0
Andrea Arnolds American Honey a fictional story drawn from real life, about marginalized teenagers who sell magazine subscriptions door to door pinpoi ..
Time
2.5
George A. Romero is among the most generous and empathetic of horror filmmakers, concerned with the traps of capitalism, which uses baubles to distrac ..
Slant Magazine
3.5
Though famous for being a filmmaker and co creator of the TV series Twin Peaks, David Lynch works in many other mediums, including music, sculpture, p ..
Slant Magazine
4.4
In her big screen acting debut, Sasha Lane shines as Star in American Honey, joining a group of traveling teenagers selling magazines.
Washington Post
5.0
On the shelf of essential cultural products whose names begin with the word American, Andrea Arnolds new film (her fourth feature and the first set in ..
The New York Times
4.5
This might be the freshest film about young people in America since Larry Clarks Kids from 1995.
The Film Stage
3.8
The reasons the MPAA ratings board has given American Honey an R sound like a panicky dad at a PTA meeting: Strong sexual content, graphic nudity, lan ..
Boston Globe
4.2
Laura Clifford Robin Clifford Teenager Star (Arnolds find, Sasha Lane) is out dumpster diving with her two young step siblings to put food on the tabl ..
Reeling Reviews
4.2
A24 Usually when we see the American underclass depicted on screen, its either as a punchline, or a form of isnt it just so sad poverty porn.
Uproxx
4.0
AMERICAN HONEY **** Directed by Andrea Arnold Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Arielle Holmes, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi In competition, 162 min ..
The Irish Times
2.5
The result is meandering and shapeless, but it has a bracing authenticity thats tough to dismiss completely.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.5
Newcomer Sasha Lane stars alongside Shia LaBeouf and Riley Keough in Andrea Arnolds first U.S. feature, about a teen runaway who takes up with a trave ..
Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Thanks to Lanes natural magnetism and the director Andrea Arnolds remarkable empathy for her subjects, its required viewing.
The Atlantic
3.0
GO LONDON newsletter Enter your email address Please enter an email address Email address is invalid Fill out this field Email address is invalid You ..
Standard
5.0
The camera races and races to keep this fast and furious young woman locked in its sights, turning her into an object of both pursuit and contemplatio ..
Los Angeles Times
4.4
Kids Far from All Right in Arnolds American Honey Andrea Arnold does not make light and fluffy pictures.
Movie Freak
2.5
At nearly three hours, American Honey is longer than some actual road trips Sasha Lane and Shia LaBeouf star in the drama American Honey.
Detroit News
5.0
Mere minutes into American Honey, her scrappy, sprawling astonishment of a fourth feature, Andrea Arnold hits the audience with a song choice almost t ..
Variety
4.5
American Honey is one of the great movies of its year, a film at once seductive in its vision of completely uninhibited youth and ruefully sad in its ..
Consequence Of Sound
3.1
american honey kiss girl left boy.jpg Sasha Lane and Shia LaBeouf steal a tender moment in American Honey (A24) Theyre the kids you see everywhere, an ..
Nj
2.0
Andrea Arnold is the only Brit in contention for the Palme dOr, so hopes were high for her first US set feature.
Hey U Guys
3.1
PG Time flies but also plods in this curiously frantic yet flatlining sequel to Tim Burtons 2010 blockbuster reimagining of Lewis Carrolls antic fanta ..
The Star
4.2
30 SHARES Facebook Twitter Youth is not exactly wasted on the young, even when the young are as wasted as they frequently are in Andrea Arnolds nectar ..
The Play List
4.0
What sets American Honey apart is that its genuinely hopeful. Were not just looking at a bunch of rootless and emotionally battered youth, but searchi ..
Now Toronto
4.5
AMERICAN HONEY SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying ..
Urban Cine File
4.5
Star (Sasha Lane), an impoverished adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest ..
Film Ink
3.8
This travelogue from British auteur Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) felt at times like my own road trips through the US: The landscape is sometimes very bea ..
New York Post
4.0
This strangely intoxicating and unsettling road movie by Andrea Arnold is a fascinating voyage into the American badlands and heartlands its more trip ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
According to American Honey, it doesnt always end badly when pretty young women get into cars full of strange men.
Star Burst Magazine
2.0
Sacha Lane has a watchful charisma and twitchy energy that is enjoyable to watch for stretches.
Lw Lies
3.8
Just as sports mirror society, so do the best sports films not only take us inside games and those who play them but also provide insight into our wor ..
Kansas City
5.0
Though Long, American Honey Comes Together Beautifully American Honey, the first movie set in the States by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (Red Road, ..
The Stranger
4.5
Often, its bleak. But Arnold is not a nihilist. She shows the decent and kind side of everyday Americans, too, just when viewers might expect the wors ..
Cleve Land
4.5
T hough it may come off as Malick for hip hop loving millennials, Arnolds film is a surprisingly poignant experience, a sprawling yet intimate odyssey ..
Screen Crush
5.0
Watching American Honey, you feel like a ball hurtling down a bowling alley.
Ft
2.0
Picture this: Youre stuck in the back of a minibus with inebriated teenagers.
Independent Ie
2.5
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold follows her acclaimed arthouse hits Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights with a road trip across the American West.
Contact Music
1.9
American Honey has the whiff of sensationalism rather than the aroma of empathy.
Larsen On Film
4.5
The imagery and themes Arnold employ certainly feel familiar to me, and allowed me to newly understand something about my own search for community and ..
Refinery 29
3.0
Gritty and raw, yet dreamy, it showcases a cast of mainly unknowns: 11 have never acted before.
The Arts Desk
5.0
The star of Andrea Arnolds phenomenal American Honey, Sasha Lane, plays a teenage wanderer and wistful searcher whose name is Star.
Wsj
4.4
1 of 5 View Caption Krystal (Riley Keogh, left) and Jake (Shia LaBeouf) are part of a magazine crew that travels the Midwest, in the drama Ameri Sasha ..
Sltrib
4.4
Bruce Springsteens cover of Dream Baby Dream is referenced in two key moments in the film. Steve Earles thumping anthem Copperhead Road, Mazzy Stars t ..
Chicago Sun Times
5.0
Reviews for September 30th, 2016 Documentary Round Up Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story sheds light on Ed Ramsey, who led the final horse mounted c ..
Nyc Movie Guru
3.5
Although at nearly three hours Arnold probably could have been more concise, the films rambling nature is part of its charm.
Punch Drunk Critics
2.0
1 of 2 2 of 2 Starring Sasha Lane.Rating unavailable British writer director Andrea Arnolds impressively stylized, no budget U.K. work in Fish Tank an ..
Straight
4.0
needs lots of American worker bees to make it, a roving swarm that labors for the sake of preserving the hive and comforting the queen, and thinks of ..
Sandiego Reader
4.5
Newcomer Sasha Lane Stuns In Intoxicating American Honey Whatever was on the brain of pop luminary Rihanna as she laid down the hook on Billboard numb ..
Cinemix Tape
4.5
The plot is bone headed and the quality of the visual effects is terrible, but there is a pure, unironic sense of purpose in this film that is utterly ..
Straits Times
5.0
Without question one of the best movies, for me at least, to have premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May was American Honey, Andrea Arnolds sear ..
Dead Line
3.0
However obvious it can sometimes be, its not obvious how to process American Honey. It lingers like an experience you actually lived.
Metro New York
5.0
The winner of this years Cannes Jury Prize, American Honey opens with a shot of two children and their teenage sister and caretaker, Star (Sasha Lane) ..
Film Comment
4.5
Andrea Arnold is a filmmaker who stands out for a number of reasons, but her focus on social realism as a subject and style is one that stands out mor ..
One Room With A View
3.5
They make eyes at each other in the Super Kmart.Out in the parking lot, he tells her about what he and his crew do for a living: We explore America, w ..
Flavor Wire
4.0
American Honey: Sasha Lane and Shia LaBeouf Sasha Lane, left, and Shia LaBeouf star in writer director Andrea Arnolds coming of age road trip drama Am ..
No La
4.5
Her traveling companions offer intimacy without openness, but in a film this inviting and absorbing, intimacy feels like a real accomplishment.
The Verge
1.5
Thankfully, whereas Kore edas last film, Our Little Sister, occasionally felt too emotionally reticent for its own good, After the Storm benefits from ..
Movie Mezzanine
4.5
For the young people in this indie flick, who roam the heartland and live on the margins, music is the closest thing to a religious experience.
Seven Day Svt
4.0
We found love in a hopeless place, sings Rihanna, the sound of exuberance in her voice.
Concrete Play Ground
5.0
Andrea Arnold made her name with distinctively photographed films about social outsiders, often young women, from the provocative revenge drama Red Ro ..
Bfi
1.9
If so, gorge yourself on American Honey, a coming of age film so drenched with simple metaphors about Americana that you expect it to leave a sticky r ..
National Post
5.0
Every corner of American Honey is crammed with colour, vitality and pulsing music.Though it is overlong at nearly three hours, the level of immersion ..
New States Man
5.0
By Ray Pride Andrea Arnolds magical American Honey skirts rivers and bodies of water, and arrives at a firefly graced glade whose tributaries are the ..
New City Film
4.5
It always comes back to the flag.Andrea Arnolds American Honey features numerous mise en scenes in which the American flag is billowing in the wind.
M Tv
2.0
You have to lie to your customers, sing along to hip hop and resist laughing at Shia LaBeoufs ponytail.
Daily Star
3.0
The good that can be said about American Honey British director Andrea Arnolds film about millennials who travel the U.S. selling phony magazine subsc ..
Toronto Sun
4.0
Movie Review: American Honey Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnolds American Honey is a nearly three hou ..
Blog Bullz Eye
4.0
A searingly poetic tour of a land deliriously in thrall to its own myths of vast opportunity.
Vue Weekly
2.5
The real truth behind American Honey isnt what the films creative team expected.
Hollywood Into To
4.5
American Honey is an immersive experience, and an intense, distinct vision of contemporary rural life.
Washington City Paper
4.5
DIR/WRI: Andrea Arnold PRO: Thomas Benski, Lars Knudsen, Lucas Ochoa, Pouya Shahbazian, Jay Van Hoy, Alice Weinberg DOP: Robbie Ryan ED: Joe Bini DES: ..
Film Ireland
4.5
American Honey (2016), the first American film from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, is a road movie powered by the restlessness and passion of its yo ..
Stream On Demand At Home
5.0
As a general rule, I would not wish to spend nearly three hours in a mini van with young people who turn up the music real loud.
Spectator
4.5
What emerges is an empathetic, often harrowing depiction of life in the poorest crevices of the American heartland, a sometimes sweet, sometimes sicke ..
Willamette Week
2.5
Movie review of American Honey: The latest from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold is a road movie about the American dream, starring Sasha Lane and Shia ..
Seattle Times
3.0
Andrea Arnold is one of the best and most distinctive British writer directors of her generation, and, until now, British has been the operative word.
Bbc
1.0
By Adam Nayman Following Andrea Arnolds third consecutive Cannes Grand Prix, allow me to suggest another award, this one for lifetime achievement: Mos ..
Cinema Scope
4.5
American Honey, filmmaker Andrea Arnolds sprawling, warts and all look at modern Americana, is both a staggering achievement and a bit too unwieldy fo ..
The Gate
3.8
There is nothing sweet about the first thing we see onscreen in Andrea Arnolds road movie American Honey: two little kids and an older teen aimlessly ..
Buffalo News
4.5
Sasha Lane in American Honey.Theyre brashly young, scantily clad, sexed up boys and girls, and they smoke and drink and party hard all night to throbb ..
Bangkok Post
2.5
The Film: In the olden days, when anyone referred to a road movie, it was usually in reference to the classic series of satirical films starring Bob H ..
The Blus Pot
4.4
By Bob Bloom American Honey is an odyssey through a panorama of America most of us rarely see.
Reel Bob
4.0
American Honey By Daniel Gelb Acclaimed British director Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, the Oscar winning short Wasp) turns her attention to the U.S. heart ..
All Movie
1.5
Winner of the jury prize at this years Cannes Film Festival, American Honey is a sprawling, overlong, perverse mess.
Daily Public
4.5
Not one blessed thing connects the film other than being road films through the western part of the United States directed by Europeans, but all durin ..
Reviews Antagony Ecstasy
5.0
American Honey Directed by Andrea Arnold Opens September 30 The road movie that meanders through Middle Americain which lonely characters crisscross v ..
Bk Mag
1.5
Clearing the soundtrack for British director Andrea Arnolds American Honey must have cost distributor A24 a fortune.
Nashville Scene
5.0
Its hard to recall another director whose work has taken as extreme a leap as that of the British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, whose new movie, American H ..
Haaretz
2.0
With a booming, singalong soundtrack of last years most infectious club rap, Instagram photography of glistening saturation, and a vanload of hip low ..
Mubi
3.0
For years I awaited English iconoclast Andrea Arnolds fourth feature, Mag Crew.
Four Three Film
2.0
Elena Lazic is a French student and writer based in London who has written for Little White Lies, Sight and Sound and The Guardian.
Seventh Row
3.5
The breakthrough film for British director Andrea Arnold was Wasp, an Oscar winning short about a single mother struggling with her four children in a ..
Un Cut
5.0
Poverty in America is a polarising subject.It is open to much debate, it plays a key role in U.S politics, and it is rarely portrayed effectively in c ..
Screen Queens
3.0
AMERICAN HONEY * * 1 / 2 Starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, Arielle Holmes and Will Patton.
Spliced Personality
4.5
Maybe this movie is a mess because America is too Maybe there are better ways to spend your time
Reverse Shot
4.0
Arnolds enthralling film is less about plot and more about capturing i.e. thrusting us into the sensory experience of this young woman going to the br ..
Montreal Gazette
4.5
The road movie, particularly the American road movie, is a genre with a long and rich heritage.
Another Gaze
4.5
I havent been to Facets in years said a patron during my 6:30pm Saturday showing of Andrea Arnolds American Honey (Essential).
Chicago Cinema Circuit
3.5
AMERICAN HONEY Three and a half stars Director Andrea Arnold Starring Shia LaBeouf, Sasha Lane, Riley Keough Rating MA 15 + Running time 164 minutes V ..
Perth Now
5.0
American Honey is an independent road movie about a scrappy, caring dreadlocked hoyden coaxed by a cocky youth to leave her urban trash heap and join ..
The Culture Trip
4.5
Youre pure American Honey, just like me..American Honey is undeniably gorgeous.
Cut Print Film
4.4
You know the movie youve just seen is powerful when it takes you a minute or two to adjust to reality once you leave the theater.
Pitch
5.0
Hollywood often paints a different picture but Andrea Arnold is telling a story about sex, love and freedom against the backdrop of social stratificat ..
Dazed Digital
2.0
There comes a time in every persons life where they fracture from the life they once knew.
Silver Screen Riot
3.0
It may not seem overtly insidious, but theres a predilection in the filmed arts, especially in the modern era, to overlook the plight of the lower cla ..
Fanboy Nation
4.5
Its authentic. Its gritty. The characters feel like real people. The film moves at a lyrical pace.
Fishnet Cinema
5.0
This is not to suggest that Jake is anything other than amused by the girls, but rather to speculate that Star recognizes the danger in their innocent ..
Cine Aste
4.5
Director Andrea Arnold is probably one of the most distinct British directors working today.
The AU Review
3.5
I dont think Ive ever seen a road movie less interested in sweeping vistas and exteriors than Andrea Arnolds American Honey.
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