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Stockholm

2018

Robert Budreau

Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl ...

5.3

1,219

Drama. Comedy Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"'Stockholm' is lightly amusing and watchable — mostly thanks to Hawke — but never makes the case that this is a story that needed to be told"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A tense and sometimes funny exploration of a famous crime (...) [It] should work well for art house auds before eventually becoming a home-video study aid for students of human behavior."	POS
United States	Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"Anyone coming to this film with the hopes to understand the traumatic underpinnings of the condition might be sorely disappointed (...) As a comedy with a good-natured soul (...) [it] is a success."	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Budreau’s flippancy doesn’t allow Hawke’s performance to evolve (...) At least Hawke is allowed to be dynamic, and the visceral pleasure he seems to take in performing puts a bit of juice into the film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"This breezy, erratic, and eminently disposable caper leans into that absurdity from the start (...) Hawke makes a three-course meal out of every morsel of dialogue"	NEU
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Something mysterious—a contagion of souls—occurred in that vault, and Budreau’s movie, entertaining as it is, leaves us little the wiser."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Budreau’s keynote of black comedy depletes the tension and suspense, but this does feel plausible in its stranger-than-fiction chaos (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"There’s little drama and tension, despite the engaging Rapace’s best efforts – the characters feel too thinly fleshed out for that (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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