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The Beach Bum

2019

Harmony Korine

Matthew McConaughey, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Snoop Dogg ...

5.4

1,471

Comedy ’The Beach Bum’ follows the hilarious misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious and loveable rogue who lives life large.

	Author	Review
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"A stoner comedy that's high on style, if not substance (...) The movie’s looseness feels controlled and choreographed to a tee, its world hermetically sealed"	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Meet Moondog - a movie character you'll want to punch in the face (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"What a pleasure it is to meet certain characters in the movies, and what a relief not to know them in real life."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[McConaughey] is having such a blast (...) The question here isn’t if but whether audiences will find his laid-back, ever-lit persona nearly as entertaining to watch (...) [It] plays like a less-coked-out 'Scarface'."	NEG
United States	Ryan Oliver The Playlist	"A hilarious, wild, sometimes problematic and gorgeous-to-look-at comedic cosmic odyssey about finding your spiritual bliss."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"What 'The Beach Bum' celebrates as transgression is pure tedium. What it takes for divine lunacy is frat house doggerel."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] pointless non-comedy, featuring McConaughey on insufferable form (...) This can only provoke something like awe that something so awful can still get made (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"It’s a 360-degrree, totally committed take on living on the periphery of madness while ordering more Mojitos. You can practically smell his character wafting from the screen."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"It isn't good and it isn't bad - it is, to borrow a fitting adjective, alright (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Dave White The Wrap	"Korine leaves his protagonist to his own devices, and in turn this leaves 'The Beach Bum' feeling like a eulogy for its own endless bacchanal."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"[McConaughey] drowns in tics and strained debauched behaviour (...) [The] meandering story drags (...) Korine is an outsider artist speaking to the misfit within each of us (...) But with 'Bum', he’s also trying our patience."	NEG
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"A good time, but also prevents it from achieving more than surface-level joy (...) [It] shares the best and worst qualities of its hero: good for a laugh, sure, but after 90 minutes you’ll be more than ready to sober up"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"McConaughey very deftly balances a character that could have become way too abrasive and annoying (...) Korine’s visual gifts are on full display (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"For anyone who thought that Harmony Korine’s prurient bikini-girls-go-wild crime flick 'Spring Breakers' was too nuanced and sophisticated, the former enfant terrible is back with an even purer concept (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Adam White The Independent	"It is as much Korine’s most mature film as it is his most juvenile (...) It feels especially singular (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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