Review of Listen Up Philip (2014) by Drblahblah — 30 Apr 2017

Perhaps the best film about writers and writing since Barton Fink, Listen Up Philip manages to be hilarious, heartbreaking, and genuinely upsetting. (In a good way.

This review of Listen Up Philip (2014) was written by Drblahblah on 30 Apr 2017.

Listen Up Philip has generally received positive reviews.

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I appreciate the intentions here (to create a black comedy about the creation of literature that is also novelistic in its form) but the end…

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By M C (510) on 08 Apr 2015

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By Tanmart S (47) on 01 Sep 2015

Jason Schwartzman plays the title character too well, you quite legitimately want to strangle the son of a bitch that is the title character…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 03 Jun 2015

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Sight and Sound (827) on 03 Jun 2015

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By Chris M (3,023) on 16 Feb 2018

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