Naked Singularity

Name: Naked Singularity
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: August 6, 2021
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein, Frank Pando, John Boyega, K. Todd Freeman

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: August 6, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Ed Skrein, Frank Pando, John Boyega, K. Todd Freeman, Kyle Mooney, Linda Lavin, Liza Colón-Zayas, Olivia Cooke, Robert Bogue, Robert Christopher Riley, Tim Blake Nelson

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VOD release: August 13, 2021.

Summary: Casi (John Boyega) is a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictableCasi (John Boyega) is a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.… Expand

Director: Chase Palmer

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Aug 6, 2021

There's something off-kilter about it, in a good way. It has a confidence that might not be earned but is still enjoyable to see. It's tapping into something true and knows it. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Aug 2, 2021

While the concept remains sound as the backdrop for a frustrated public defender choosing the riskier road less traveled to make his mark and a difference when every other version of himself would balk, it has us believing the surreal visual anomalies sprinkled amidst the heist have purpose beyond superficial thematic reinforcement. Read full review

David Rooney

Apr 15, 2021

The brisk pacing and capable cast still can't quite mask a certain routine feel in a movie without much heart. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Aug 3, 2021

Even Spiderverse-savvy Spiderman might consider this singularly confusing, a botched effort to say something scientific-sound and profound in a story that’s basically a lawyer-novelist riffing on “The French Connection,” and doing it badly. Read full review

Polygon Robert Daniels

Aug 6, 2021

Naked Singularity isn’t a typical courtroom drama. It’s a heist flick, a sci-fi romp, and a message film all rolled into one. And it’s a pretty terrible example of all three genres. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Aug 5, 2021

This convoluted clash of competing interests, though, is so poorly explained it’s as arduous to untangle as it is to enjoy. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Aug 2, 2021

The uniquely underwhelming sci-fi lawyer drama Naked Singularity is a weird mashup of ill-fitting genre tropes and quarter-cooked ideas about social justice and alternate realities. Read full review

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freeridearts

Aug 26, 2021

It's a great film. Not sure why all the reviews are being so negative towards it.

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

Perhaps John Boyega has in mind to star in movies that offer him a challenge as an actor, and in this case I can't really say bad things about his work, however, I can't help wondering what the hell went through his head when reading the script and believing this was something good.

Also, IPerhaps John Boyega has in mind to star in movies that offer him a challenge as an actor, and in this case I can't really say bad things about his work, however, I can't help wondering what the hell went through his head when reading the script and believing this was something good.

Also, I understand this was adapted from a book. I can't say anything about the source material, because I don't know anything about it, however, Naked Singularity is only 90 minutes long, and from what I read, the book is about 700 pages long.
Certainly something was lost along the way.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jul 22, 2022

(Mauro Lanari)
Ridley Scott produces the film adaptation of the book "A Naked Singularity" (Sergio De La Pava, 2008), Chase Palmer's first feature that has the merit of clarifying, as never before in a movie, the dichotomy founding the philosophy of the time: Voltaire against Leibniz, the(Mauro Lanari)
Ridley Scott produces the film adaptation of the book "A Naked Singularity" (Sergio De La Pava, 2008), Chase Palmer's first feature that has the merit of clarifying, as never before in a movie, the dichotomy founding the philosophy of the time: Voltaire against Leibniz, the "Candide" (1759) against the "Theodicy" (1710). "If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?". The paradigm shift, the breaking of the gnoseontological scheme, takes place through science (fiction): transcending legal laws thanks to physical and cosmological possibilities, the injustice of the system with reptilians and the "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler (1973). Confused? Why shouldn't it be? Still no one has shown that the problem is solvable, but at least here we do not get bogged down in directors like Richard Curtis, who allows himself to provide a haughtily defeatist answer, or like Nolan, who stages negentropy in an rambling spy-movie. Palmer's real flaws are a very bad photography and, together with De La Pava, "the clumsy jumble of tones and ideas" (RT). Personally I add the lack of a different and complementary point of view: the female one like the protagonist Laura of "Press Play" (Björkman 2022).… Expand

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MetacriticOnur

Aug 15, 2021

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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Aldaron87

Sep 27, 2021

No normal person watches a film starring a racist. A no-talent blaming everyone for his acting disability. I don't know how such a racist can be employed.

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