Lay the Favorite

  • 2013


MOVIE IS unconventional amusing favorite disappointing lifeless
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13 %
18 % Rotten
$ 1 Million
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Positive Reviews 10
Negative reviews 29
Average Rating 1.9/5
unconventional amusing favorite disappointing lifeless

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3.2
B+) Excision: If Something For Nothing coasts breezily by on its director/hosts affability, the darkly comic shocker Excision is powered by unrepentan .. Av Club
3.0
Frearss strongest hand is a set of colourful characters played with verve... Time Out
2.0
This is one bugged out burlesque you can easily close the iron door on. Time Out
1.3
Hollywood celebrities romping around in a candy colored Alexa shot criminal underworld, pretty much as a means of passing time.
1.5
Like a loud guest at a party whos amusing for a while, until you just have to escape to the next room. The Hollywood Reporter
1.7
Dinks jealous wife (Catherine Zeta Jones), however, doesnt take kindly to Beths presence and starts working against her. Paste Magazine
1.0
The dialogue is shrill, the emotional moments are foghorned with deafening musical cues, and every scene is lit like an advert for orange juice. Telegraph
1.0
And Vince Vaughns Rosie, drug fueled and doing illegal book in New York and offshore, is a total waste of a funny man.
2.0
Particularly disappointing given the names involved, its only mildly amusing at best, and more often downright tedious.
1.0
Hall works like mad to create this character, giving her a breathy voice and hair twisting tics and wide eyed expressions that, rather than rounding h .. Ny Daily News
3.1
During the first half of the movie, when Dink is around, theres some energy but, once hes largely out of the picture, Beth proves ineffective at holdi .. ReelViews
2.2
Despite a swirling atmosphere of degenerates and jealousy, the material doesnt spark to life, finding director Stephen Frears strangely powerless when .. Blu Ray
2.5
It doesnt help, either, that the film takes an aggressively surface level approach to its subject.) Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Watchable comedy drama that gets by thanks to a terrific central performance by Rebecca Hall and colourful supporting turns from the rest of the cast. .. View London
3.1
Frears has a lot of fun with the bad tempers and high spirits of this crew of adrenaline junkies, and though the story falls a little flat, the script .. New York Post
1.5
This shaggy dog story based on the improbable real life adventures of exotic dancer turned bookie turned journalist Beth Raymer is never quite as amus .. Film Journal International ..
1.5
Director Stephen Frears, whose varied and distinguished filmography includes Dangerous Liaisons and High Fidelity, cant seem to decide what movie hes .. Npr
1.5
While this is a lesser work in the Frears canon, its still a likable caper. Guardian
1.5
With The Grifters nothing but a memory, Stephen Frearss latest hustling tale is an oddly lacklustre and forgettable affair. Guardian
2.0
In fact, everyone does a very great deal of tiresome shouting and yelling, as if theyre auditioning for the Max Bialystock role in The Producers. Guardian
1.0
Even though Hall is endearingly enthusiastic, its hard to care if her character wins through. Daily Mail
4.5
Neither movie takes place in anything resembling the real world, but at least Frears doesnt leave talented actors rattling around with no idea what to .. Salon
3.0
The story is borderline inconsequential but the characters are lively and engaging and the performances strong. Express
1.0
Lay the Favourite eventually self destructs amid a mess of pointless shouting and aimless arm waving. The Irish Times
1.5
Frears seems to be in something of a slump, and his giddy, surface skimming adaptation of Beth Raymers memoir about her trajectory from stripper to bo .. Total Film
2.0
Hall equally demonstrates her great ability as an actor displaying a pleasant level of ditsy charm and unconventional intelligence. Cine Vue
2.0
Her romance with Jeremy (a bland Joshua Jackson) doesnt add up either, except that hes the standard Mr Nice Guy. Digital Spy
4.5
Just kind of, well, lays there. Or lies there. It matters to those of us who value the English language, but not to many others. Like this film. Hollywood And Fine
2.5
Rebecca Hall, a real gem of a British actress, is fantastically convincing as the lead, boasting an immaculate American accent, a cracking tan, and a .. What Culture
1.0
A shrug of a film featuring unremarkable characters in an unremarkable story that never does more than limp toward it flat and flimsy third act. No La
2.0
As it stands, the picture keeps losing its thread, zigzagging between fizzy comedy and mucked up melodrama. Dvd Talk
1.9
What little plot Lay the Favorite has is lost in a mess of a screenplay that does absolutely nothing to stand out in any way whatsoever.
0.5
Broad, flat, lugubrious, the worst example of filmmaking that exists. Ion Cinema
1.5
Not just an utterly tepid comedy, but possibly the most lifeless film in Frears generally acclaimed oeuvre. Film.com
1.0
Incoherent, loud and saddled with a lead character far less smart ... Lay the Favorite simply lays down dead. MSN Movies
1.5
Rebecca Halls perky comic turn as the buoyant Beth is a delight, but although Stephen Frears film bobs along pleasantly enough, he never makes the gam .. Movie Talk
1.0
Like Rebecca Halls inane giggle, Lay the Favorite comes across as high pitched and annoyingly animated without any reason. Not my favorite ... by a lo ..
1.0
Lay the Favourite ... is a surprising turn off of talent not worth betting on for a profitable night outs big screen entertainment. Real.com
3.8
Lay the Favorite is a small and not particularly ambitious movie, but its pleasing and exceptionally well made.
3.0
Most Android makers will have to wait until next year to match the A12 chip, though its unlikely the next gen Snapdragon and Exynos chips will exceed .. Voices Yahoo
1.0
I can scarcely remember a film where someone as massively talented as the young British actress Rebecca Hall has clearly worked so hard to inject some ..



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