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Going in Style

2017

Zach Braff

Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, Matt Dillon ...

5.7

5,918

Comedy A reboot of the 1979 movie that was directed by Martin Brest and featured George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. Three seniors, who are living social security check to check and even reduced to eating dog food at times, decide they have had enough. So, they plan to rob a bank...problem is, they don't even know how to handle a gun!

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The movie is a feel-good concoction: not a terrible way to spend 96 minutes, but not an entertainment experience that anyone’s going to remember in 38 years, or maybe even next week."	NEU
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"The effortless charm and goodwill of topliners Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and especially Alan Arkin keep things watchable, that’s not enough to redeem the clunky mix of broad-strokes comedy and perfunctory social commentary"	NEG
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"It’s always good for a pleasant, nontaxing romp, and that’s precisely what the caper film 'Going in Style' delivers."	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"What is Zach Braff doing behind the camera of the old-dudes comedy 'Going In Style'?"	NEG
United States	Adam Graham Detroit News	"'Going in Style' isn’t setting out to do much more than to steal a smile, and in that regard, it succeeds. There are weightier movies with more moral complexity, but this is just a hug from grandpa."	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"A lazy hash of cheap geezer gags and spoon-fed sentiment."	NEG
United States	Stephen Whitty New York Daily News	"It’s like the lunch special served down at the senior center — sweet, starchy and blandly unsatisfying (...) There’s something nicely nostalgic about seeing these old stars on screen again (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"[It] may not be a federal offense, but it is certainly a misdemeanor (...) It uses its gifted veterans to disguise how tired, implausible and overly sentimental the proceedings turn out to be."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"There are times when Braff and Melfi hint at the darkness of a world that ignores seniors by making them invisible. But this new version of 'Going in Style' (...) loses touch with reality. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman go nowhere in this benignly boring comedy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Going In Style' goes down smoothly even if the only thing that really gets stolen is the audience’s time."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"Despite the all-star trio and the rare joke that lands, 'Going In Style' never hits its stride as a warm-hearted crime caper (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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