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Chronically Metropolitan

2016

Xavier Manrique

Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Benson, Josh Peck, Addison Timlin ...

4.9

36

Comedy. Drama 'Chronically Metropolitan' is a family drama about a young writer, Fenton, who is forced home to help the family cope when his larger than life father, Christopher, gets into a car accident with a truck full of crabs.

	Author	Review
United States	Tatiana Craine Village Voice	"Xavier Manrique’s film fails to drum up more than clichés about rich-people problems (...) Stale dialogue (...) There’s little to cheer"	NEG
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"The result is a chronically 'meh' coming-of-age meets dysfunctional-family tale, with a particularly unsatisfying ending."	NEG
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman The Wrap	"[It] could use a rewrite (...) The performances are so stilted (only Peck stands out) that these thinly-drawn characters feel as false as the world they inhabit (...) The film does look great"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Resembling a Philip Roth novel that the author had the good sense to leave unpublished, 'Chronically Metropolitan' leaves no cliché unturned (...) [It] comes across as pompous."	NEG
United States	Ken Jaworowski The New York Times	"The premise here is already implausible (...) Nobody seems to get genuinely sad or elated (...) making it tough for a viewer to do the same."	NEG

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