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The Paperboy

2012

Lee Daniels

Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack ...

5.1

4,486

Thriller. Drama In the 70s, a reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A smart, entertaining thriller with an excellent performance from Kidman (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A grungy exploitation melodrama made in the period it depicts, which might mystify the uninitiated but gives Paperboy an appealingly rough and rasty texture"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"'The Paperboy' can't decide whether to be an unfunny sex comedy, a half-hearted detective story or a woeful race drama - so it decides to be all three (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This hot mess got booed by the snobs at Cannes, but there's no denying its profane energy (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Daniels' deft adaptation of Pete Dexter's 1996 novel is even more disturbing on screen than on the page. It's a Southern Gothic noir thriller with a terrific ensemble cast (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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