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As brilliantly and uncomfortably confrontational as its protagonist, Entertainment is a boundary-blurring exercise in cinematic misanthropy that more than lives up to its title.
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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 at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance." Nov 19, 2015 | Full Review…
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 at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
Robert Abele
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends. Nov 19, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends.
Tom Keogh
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California. Nov 19, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California.
J. R. Jones
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy. Nov 13, 2015 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy.
Tasha Robinson
Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: an active, engaged experience. Nov 13, 2015 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: an active, engaged experience.
John Semley
Weirdly compelling if student-y and unfocused ... Nov 13, 2015 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Weirdly compelling if student-y and unfocused ...
Kyle Smith
There's something powerful in Entertainment's ability to push down into the darkest depths without any hesitation. May 24, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
There's something powerful in Entertainment's ability to push down into the darkest depths without any hesitation.
C.J. Prince
Entertainment challenges our tolerance for comic absurdity by making it confrontational. At times, it's hard to figure out whether you should be laughing, gasping or both. Nov 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Entertainment challenges our tolerance for comic absurdity by making it confrontational. At times, it's hard to figure out whether you should be laughing, gasping or both.
Glenn Heath Jr.
With Turkington's deft hand, Entertainment methodically deconstructs the world's shallow surfaces. Aug 25, 2018 | Full Review…
With Turkington's deft hand, Entertainment methodically deconstructs the world's shallow surfaces.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Rick Alverson's breakthrough film about a bitter, aging stand-up comedian who is a character that Nathaniel West might have conceived. Jan 19, 2018 | Full Review…
Rick Alverson's breakthrough film about a bitter, aging stand-up comedian who is a character that Nathaniel West might have conceived.
Louis Proyect
It sparks interesting discussion on what actually is funny, what should be considered funny, who to respect as far as comedians go Dec 3, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It sparks interesting discussion on what actually is funny, what should be considered funny, who to respect as far as comedians go
Robert Kojder
Though often slowly paced, Entertainment reveals itself as a remarkably dense, if not difficult film that rewards patience and a willingness to step into the anti-social mind. Dec 8, 2016 | Full Review…
Though often slowly paced, Entertainment reveals itself as a remarkably dense, if not difficult film that rewards patience and a willingness to step into the anti-social mind.
Arlin Golden
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