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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 May 2023

What emerges from the electronic noise and fussy aesthetic of “BlackBerry” is a compelling portrait of a company that flew too close to the sun…

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By Liz Shannon Miller (69) for Consequence (296) on 15 May 2023

BlackBerry holds up well as a blunt portrait of BlackBerry’s ascendance as well as its eventual decline, with cinematographer Jared Raab…

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By Dylan Roth (23) for Observer (1,042) on 15 May 2023

Compared to the crowd-pleasing Tetris or Air, BlackBerry plays a bit dour and dry, but the film is better for it…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 15 May 2023

There’s something so compelling about what [Howerton's] doing that he almost convinces you that BlackBerry is better than it is…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 15 May 2023

BlackBerry plays like a prototype still waiting to be realized, a sketch that’s still undeveloped…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 May 2023

BlackBerry is a biography of a once-great business that is fascinating enough on its own terms without being reshaped to fit a narrative formula…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 12 May 2023

This is a movie about people whose successes and failures originate in the same places: a tragedy shot and edited like an action comedy…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 12 May 2023

A fantastic cast led by Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton tells the sad but true story of the flame-out of the world’s first smartphone and…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 12 May 2023

It’s the comic energy generated by the triumvirate of Howerton, Baruchel, and Johnson that really drives BlackBerry, but Johnson and his…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 12 May 2023

It’s a roller coaster that viewers can enjoy riding all the way up, but it’s not afraid to question its own climax the whole way down…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 May 2023

This is all the makings of Oscar gold, rife with the story beats that The Social Network codified—and even succeeds in some clever elliptical…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 12 May 2023

Although lacking the gravitas and moral conundrums of Facebook-centric “The Social Network,” Johnson’s dweebish film turns every one…

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By Jason Delgado (25) for Film Threat (5,156) on 12 May 2023

BlackBerry is another movie where we all know the ending, but the fun is in finding out how we got there…

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By Graeme Guttmann (36) for Screen Rant (892) on 12 May 2023

It's full of fast-talking tech nerds and morally compromised corporate A-holes, it bites off a bit more than it can chew in telling the story…

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By Chris Knight (998) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 11 May 2023

It’s clever and backed up by enough tech-speak to give viewers a sense of the nuts and bolts of things without wandering into the weeds…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 11 May 2023

In many ways BlackBerry is the standard-fare cautionary tale of tech start-ups. Insert your Icarus metaphors here…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 11 May 2023

As for Johnson's grasp of the era in tech firms, it's astoundingly accurate, so much so that you'll swear you can smell the switch from the…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 11 May 2023

A wonky workplace comedy that slowly shades into tragedy…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 May 2023

BlackBerry doesn’t sermonize or push the comedy or falsify the dramatic dynamics of wildly contrasting personalities…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 May 2023

Thanks to the clever, docudrama style direction by Matt Johnson, a crackling good screenplay by Johnson and Matthew Miller and searingly good…

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