Review of Entertainment (2015) by John E — 17 Dec 2015

Boring, depressing, waste of time...really?!!!!

This review of Entertainment (2015) was written by John E on 17 Dec 2015.

Entertainment has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Nov 2015

There's a chic emptiness to Entertainment, undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 03 Dec 2017

It sparks interesting discussion on what actually is funny, what should be considered funny, who to respect as far as comedians go…

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By Casey Jarman (6) for Willamette Week (516) on 03 Dec 2015

The Frankenstein-esque final scenes of Entertainment make it painfully clear: As much as we want to read them as social critique, Rick Alverson…

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By Logan M (1,902) on 19 Feb 2016

It was hard to get on board for this. I appreciate what they were going for, but the bleakness and depression the film hinged on was also its undoing…

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It's a very David Lynchian stylistic surrealist film with lots of long takes on strange objects or setting and loud, long blank noises like…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 19 Jan 2018

Rick Alverson's breakthrough film about a bitter, aging stand-up comedian who is a character that Nathaniel West might have conceived…

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By John Semley (121) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 13 Nov 2015

Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema…

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By Betty Jo Tucker (725) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 13 Nov 2015

Gregg Turkington delivers a spot-on performance as a down-in-the-dumps comic in this gloomy offering. Too bad the film left me me in a deep funk too…

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