Jonathan

Name: Jonathan
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Released: November 16, 2018
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Alaska L. McFadden, Alok Tewari, Ansel Elgort, Douglas Hodge, Ian Unterman

2018

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Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: November 16, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Alaska L. McFadden, Alok Tewari, Ansel Elgort, Douglas Hodge, Ian Unterman, Jeff Kim, Joe Egender, Julie Mickelson, Matt Bomer, Patricia Clarkson, Shunori Ramanathan, Souleymane Sy Savane, Suki Waterhouse

Summary: Jonathan (Ansel Elgort) lives a mundane life. He goes to work. He eats alone. He plays video games, and he swaps video messages daily with John, with whom he shares a modest apartment. The lives of the two are entwined, though not quite in the way it might initially seem. So when John breaks one of the ironclad rules that govern theirJonathan (Ansel Elgort) lives a mundane life. He goes to work. He eats alone. He plays video games, and he swaps video messages daily with John, with whom he shares a modest apartment. The lives of the two are entwined, though not quite in the way it might initially seem. So when John breaks one of the ironclad rules that govern their ordered lives, their structured existence, their increasingly suspicious doctor, and their own individual autonomy threaten to collide. [Tribeca Film Festival]… Expand

Director: Bill Oliver

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Nov 15, 2018

Elgort does great work juggling what is essentially a dual performance, while Oliver, making his feature directorial debut, here, keeps things clipping along at a taut, engaging pace. Small in scope, yet successful in just about every aspect of its unspooling, Jonathan stands tall. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Apr 27, 2018

In the end, it doesn’t feel like Jonathan fully commits to its own premise. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Nov 16, 2018

The movie is not interested in wrapping things up via a “smash the mirror” epiphany. It’s to Oliver’s credit that he’s taken a more tough-minded than easily cathartic approach. And Ansel Elgort’s wonderful performance does appropriate honor to the ambiguity the movie is trucking in. Read full review

Pat Brown

Nov 11, 2018

The dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

Nov 15, 2018

Jonathan is good enough for us to want it to be better. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Nov 15, 2018

While Elgort, whose big breakout role was in last year’s “Baby Driver,” does a decent job of delineating the two characters and Patricia Clarkson reliably comes through as their sympathetic doctor, the clinically distancing production never forms a meaningful bond with its audience. Read full review

Dan Callahan

Apr 27, 2018

Oliver makes sure that every scene in Jonathan is slow, earnest, tidy, and very cautious, and he pulls back from anything that might be too dramatic. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 26, 2018

Although Ansel Elgort still doesn't convince me, I must admit this is perhaps one of his most decent efforts, even though it will pass unnoticed.

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