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White Boy Rick

2018

Yann Demange

Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jonathan Majors ...

5.9

3,121

Drama The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] feels like a TV movie, albeit with a better cast and a much hipper score (...) [It] never really makes clear what his duties are, which deprives the film of whatever suspense"	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"[It] embraces the familiar guns and criminal poses, limitations that the director, Yann Demange, never transcends"	NEG
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] does a fine job re-creating time and place, and the film has a gritty texture. Where it falters is in creating characters who can compel audiences"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] leaves much to be desired (...) [It] attempts to mine drama from circumstances without succeeding at making any of its characters all that sympathetic"	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"You could do a lot worse than getting a director like Yann Demange (...) The film isn’t saying much about the Reagan-era War on Drugs (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"The problem is that Demange and the screenwriters just have so much going on and there are so many unanswered questions (...) Even Powley and McConaughey’s performances can’t overcome that flaws"	NEG
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"'White Boy Rick' is a prime example of when good craft can’t save a bad story (...) It can’t figure out the approach to its protagonist."	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"'White Boy Rick' struggles to find singular drama in an all-too-common story (...) This film is oddly devoid of tension"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[It] can be a little underpowered dramatically (...) But when Demange focuses on Rick’s situation, it becomes a sobering portrait of how American law enforcement’s aggressive stance on drugs proved to do more harm than good"	NEU

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