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Annie

2014

Will Gluck

Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale ...

4.3

1,942

Musical. Comedy Wealthy businessman Benjamin Stacks comes to the aid of a young girl living in an orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Aside the grating performances, the clumsy direction, the visual ugliness and the haphazard development of story, character and relationships, the movie is hobbled by its intrinsic unsuitability for contemporary retelling"	NEG
United States	Ronnie Scheib Variety	"More of a facelift than an update (...) Very young kids may be diverted by 'Annie’s' wall-to-wall music and nonstop movement"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The cast would have been better served by a middle school production overseen by a creatively frustrated, inappropriately ambitious drama teacher than by this hacky, borderline-incompetent production."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The Sony hackers (...) have leaked the new 'Annie' online so everyone can have free access. It's their cruelest trick to date. (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Though always meant to be a fairy tale, this new 'Annie' comes across as especially materialistic and shallow, an endless parade of high-priced trinkets and fancy clothes."	NEG
United States	Jason Clark Entertainment Weekly	"And so, the once-heartwarming story of an orphan girl who craves the comfort of a real family is now a smash-cut commercial for the one percent, with lots of unsubtle product placement"	NEG
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Where to begin in describing the awfulness of 'Annie?"	NEG
United States	Inkoo Kang The Wrap	"[A] disenchantment, even misanthropy, seeps through Will Gluck's reinterpretation of the Broadway classic."	NEG

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