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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 12, 2018 |
Starring:
Alvina August, Bethany Brown, Cailee Spaeny, Chris Hemsworth, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Jim O'Heir, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Whitesell, Katharine Isabelle, Lewis Pullman, Manny Jacinto, Mark O'Brien, Nick Offerman, Sarah Smyth, Shea Whigham, Xavier Dolan
Summary:
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption... before everything goes to hell.
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Oct 20, 2018
IndieWire
Sep 27, 2018
The more that Goddard upends our assumptions about who’s good, who’s bad, and who’s going to live through the night, the more we realize that we’re rooting for all of these fucked-up people to get right with the world. It’s massively didactic, but in a way that encourages us to dwell on how we feel about these characters, and how malleable those feelings are.
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Oct 10, 2018
It’s British stage actress Erivo who feels like the real star. Her steely charisma and gorgeous powerhouse of a voice (Goddard takes every plausible opportunity to let her loose on a classic 1960s songbook; can you blame him?) is what gives the movie not just a different kind of heroine, but a heart.
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Oct 10, 2018
Goddard provides ample space for his star-studded cast to play, often to great effect, thanks mostly to lesser-known stars like Erivo and Pullman. The production design is similarly engrossing, with the El Royale's endless corridors and secrets making it as much a character in the movie as any of its human players.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 13, 2018
I remain as curious as ever to see what Goddard does next. But this film, for all its canny presentation, is a mishmash of compelling narrative premises clumsily fused together. It manages to be both overwrought and under-developed, disappointing less for what it is than for what it could have been.
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Movie Nation
Oct 1, 2018
Ponderously telling some parts of its sketch-of-a-story from multiple points of view, it’s an excruciating exercise in self-indulgence, packed with flashbacks and those big speeches/big scenes that draw names like Oscar winner Jeff Bridges, Dakota Johnson and Jon Hamm to its cast. It adds up to nothing more than two hours and 21 minutes of tedium, with the odd spasm of violence, back-story or musical interlude.
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Oct 15, 2018
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Jan 2, 2020
Make the effort, it's definitely worth the watch.
Christopher Hemsworth even puts in a decent performance.
Christopher Hemsworth even puts in a decent performance.
0 of 1 users found this helpful01
Oct 22, 2018
1 of 2 users found this helpful11
Dec 28, 2018
With violent surprises, beautiful cinematography, and stellar acting, "Bad Times at the El Royale" is a supremely satisfying original from director Drew Goddard.
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Oct 17, 2018
Not bad, not great. It was pretty good. We liked it. Good acting, Chris Hemsworth is always easy on the eyes and what a part he played.
1 of 4 users found this helpful13
Oct 23, 2018
Not enough Jon Hamm. This film means well and could have been really great but scene were very hit and miss.
1 of 3 users found this helpful12
Feb 13, 2019
2 of 7 users found this helpful25
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