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35
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2.0
Entertainment is hypnotic and distinctive enough to make you wish it had a few more tricks up its sleeve.
Av Club
1.9
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds ..
Rogerebert
1.5
The man doesnt do much else for his life other than this, and were not sure he could.
Rogerebert
2.0
While Entertainment lacks the focused critique of The Comedy, it nevertheless offers a fascinating look at the tension between personal aspirations an ..
Indie Wire
4.0
General audiences will keep a safe distance, but Entertainment should have no trouble finding a fervent cult to call its own.
Variety
3.5
The heart of Entertainment is honest, as Turkington admits that being hated or loved doesnt matter as long as your crowd is entertained.
We Got This Covered
3.0
The on stage moments of Entertainment are revelatory but, unfortunately, some of the in between meat of the film doesnt quite connect.
The Guardian
4.4
(This is especially true of the pumps: towering, perfectly engineered mechanisms that drudge up the dark liquid underneath the surface.)
3.5
Despite its apparently sincere identification with its protagonist, Entertainment feels like a sick joke.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Watching Entertainment is a profoundly uncomfortable, some would say repellent, experience that isnt easily forgotten.
The New York Times
4.5
Unlike Entertainment, though, The Comedy had no substance beneath the layers of its cruelty.
Paste Magazine
3.5
Their playground is a barren Southwest landscape of prisons, dive bars, cheap motels and ghost towns, with Turkingtons lonely, role playing purveyor o ..
4.4
But like Hamburgers meta hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: a ..
The Globe And Mail
3.0
Having done a multitude of masala movies, he\u00e2\u0080\u0099s become a khiladi.
2.0
You know the way you can walk out after even a thoughtful, accomplished drama and then never think of it again Entertainment will stain you, grub you ..
Village Voice
1.5
Its what new films ought to strive for: to strike back against the familiar.
Village Voice
1.9
Thats giving the film more credit for a through line than it actually has.Entertainment is rife with randomness, shot through with misery and self loa ..
Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
Its not the kind of comedy where the laughs are easily forthcoming.
Sover
3.0
The distinction is never clear, but thats part of the performers appeal to anti comedy fans. Entertainment is a valentine to Turkingtons method of mad ..
Blu Ray
3.8
You can throw your drink at the screen, but your only real escape is to surrender and walk out.
Chicago Reader
2.5
The movie has a nice blend of comedy, emotions, lessons, entertainment and drama.
FilmiBeat
2.0
This is profoundly disturbing and sad.This film is strictly for those who like art cinema in which the object is not to entertain, but to confront the ..
Lariat
4.0
Treading the fine line between humor and horror, Entertainment is so pitch black as to make its comedy barely discernible.
Film Journal
3.1
Eschewing anything like a linear story and leaving many (if not all) questions unanswered, writer director Rick Alverson is the Virgil for a freaky ex ..
New York Post
2.5
14A Its a darn good thing Jeffrey Dean Morgans character establishes himself as a sleight of hand master early on.It almost requires belief in magic a ..
Toronto Star
3.5
Gregg Turkington delivers a spot on performance as a down in the dumps comic in this gloomy offering. Too bad the film left me me in a deep funk too.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.0
Comedy is a tricky thing; its hyper subjective and typically draws from dark elements to create laughter.
Film Inquiry
3.0
It sparks interesting discussion on what actually is funny, what should be considered funny, who to respect as far as comedians go
Flickering Myth
4.0
The director Rick Alverson gives the age old trope of the unfunny comedian an extreme new twist in this puckishly aggressive drama.
New Yorker
2.0
The challenging experience that is Alversons latest film, Entertainment, makes The Comedy feel like a walk in the park.
The Film Stage
2.0
But there are bizarrely entrancing riches beyond its perverse sense of humor, and Alverson creates a hyper controlled space for the audience thats oft ..
Blogs Indie Wire
4.0
Less patient audiences will be ground down by the bleakness, but I found it all to be thrilling in its sand blasted ugliness.
Birth Movies Death
3.8
Entertainment greatly benefits from Gregg Turkingtons amazing performance.
Aisle Seat
3.0
Rick Alversons Entertainment will be admired by just as many people as it will be despised.
Consequence Of Sound
3.0
This is emblematic of what is a bleak, grim piece of cinema.Not all films can be light, undemanding comedies, and it takes an accomplished filmmaker t ..
Hey U Guys
2.0
Entertainment is much more than a showcase for this repellant but fascinating character, though.
Oregon Live
1.5
Casa Grande Cinema Village 22 E. 12th St. (212) 924 3363 FridayNov. 19 Questions of class and race abound in this Brazilian film.
Wsj
4.0
Every shot goes on several beats too long, as if finding a cinematic equivalent of Hamburgers love of leaving gobs of dead air between jokes.
Metro New York
3.0
Turkingtons frozen mask of disgust and detachment somehow manages to suggest someone just before and just after being punched.
Film Comment
4.0
Entertainment is attacking you.As someone who obsesses over film, I welcome this kind of study but the reason its so powerful is that it will push peo ..
Crave Online
3.8
Entertainment Studio: Magnolia Directed by Rick Alverson Web Exclusive Comedian Neil Hamburger, like director Rick Alverson, is probably most often de ..
Under The Radar Mag
5.0
But delivered in Hamburgers distinct cadences, it becomes hilarious in its absurdity.
Movie Mezzanine
1.5
a magnetic lead turn that, like the rest of the provocative action, is designed to repulse.
Film Journal International ..
1.5
Some jokes are too juvenile, some are not in good taste and very few are actually funny.The plot of the film is senseless and full of loopholes.
India Today
4.5
Its the closest emulation of a waking nightmare in an American movie in a very long time.
New City Film
4.5
Robert Donnes haunting, droning score doesnt offer any comfort either.
Battleship Pretension
2.0
The Frankenstein esque final scenes of Entertainment make it painfully clear: As much as we want to read them as social critique, Rick Alverson makes ..
Willamette Week
4.5
This isnt an invitation to download; its an appeal to Australia film distributors: be daring!
Junkee
3.0
Alversons film moves beyond a simple exploration of misplaced ego, additionally serving as a study of authenticity, particularly within the entertainm ..
Four Three Film
4.5
Entertainment challenges our tolerance for comic absurdity by making it confrontational. At times, its hard to figure out whether you should be laughi ..
Sd City Beat
3.5
Theres something powerful in Entertainments ability to push down into the darkest depths without any hesitation.
4.5
With Turkingtons deft hand, Entertainment methodically deconstructs the worlds shallow surfaces.
The Blue Lenses
4.5
The true comedian, or the vestiges of a human soul beneath this purposefully repellent get up, isnt in much better shape.
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