Run This Town

Name: Run This Town
Genre: Drama
Released: March 6, 2020
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Ben Platt, Damian Lewis, David Eisner, Genevieve Kang, Gil Bellows

2020

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: March 6, 2020 | R

Starring: Ben Platt, Damian Lewis, David Eisner, Genevieve Kang, Gil Bellows, Hamza Haq, Jennifer Ehle, Justin Kelly, Lauren Collins, Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev, Rebecca Liddiard, Scott Speedman

Summary: A young journalist and a young political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life political scandal as they struggle to navigate adult life. Like all their friends, Bram and Kamal are struggling to climb the ladders at their respective workplaces: Bram at a newspaper, Kamal at City Hall. When Bram learns of a scandal involving Kamal’sA young journalist and a young political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life political scandal as they struggle to navigate adult life. Like all their friends, Bram and Kamal are struggling to climb the ladders at their respective workplaces: Bram at a newspaper, Kamal at City Hall. When Bram learns of a scandal involving Kamal’s larger-than-life boss, he seizes the moment to advance his career. Meanwhile, Kamal grapples with containing the story while maintaining his integrity.… Expand

Director: Ricky Tollman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Kenneth Turan

Mar 5, 2020

Smart, ambitious and impressive, Run This Town is the best kind of feature directing debut, a film that entertains and makes you look forward to what will come next. Read full review

The Film Stage John Fink

Mar 14, 2019

Superbly entertaining ... An engaging thriller first and a millennial can-do tale second, Tollman’s script sometimes tells rather than shows as it repeats points later in the picture. Yet the rapid-fire pacing is continually riveting, calling back to the great political thrillers of yesteryear. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 6, 2020

An involving and ambitious fictionalized look at Rob Ford's downfall that is far from satisfied with gawking at that Toronto trainwreck, Ricky Tollman's Run This Town also intends to make points about racism and sexual harassment; to lament the slow-motion death of journalism; and to give voice to a generation of young adults who've been maligned by the oldsters who, as the movie sees it, made them the way they are. Read full review

Hannah Hoolihan

Mar 4, 2020

Thankfully, both Platt and Massoud shine in their respective roles. They take the characters that Tollman wrote and make them layered, complex, and enthralling to the viewer. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Arielle Bernstein

Mar 6, 2020

Throughout the film, Ford’s behavior, which should be in the foreground of this story, seems to curiously fade to the back. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Mar 5, 2020

The movie never quite reconciles its assorted perspectives into a coherent point of view. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

Mar 4, 2020

Yeah, it’s not good. Writer/director Ricky Tollman has turned the true story of Rob Ford’s crack video into a fake cris du coeur for millennials. Read full review

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