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Joy

Joy

2015

David O. Russell

Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Isabella Rossellini ...

5.8

15,911

Drama. Comedy A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs. Joy is the story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Joy' is an intriguing but weirdly subdued and stylised film. (...) Cooper's performance and the role itself are frankly pretty flavourless and even dull (...) It's a strong lead performance from Lawrence (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"Sharp, enjoyable real-life melodrama (...) Lawrence is irresistible. (...) And, after 'Brooklyn' and 'Carol', here’s another film that passes the Bechdel Test for proper female characters with flying colours. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Despite another solid performance from Jennifer Lawrence (...) it’s hard not to wish 'Joy' were better — that its various winsome parts added up to more than a flyweight product that still feels stuck in the development stage."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The splendidly dextrous cast ensures that this goofy success story (...) keeps firing on all cylinders in the manner of the writer-director's previous few outings."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The invigorating talent of the man behind The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle still shines, even in this uneven muddle (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"The ringmaster of 'The Fighter', 'Silver Linings Playbook' and 'American Hustle' seems to have mellowed a little, which means fewer outright belly laughs, but a more and involving emotional landscape. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"[Lawrence gives] a wonderfully layered performance that carries the film through its rough spots and sometime dubious detours (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The movie, in all its mess and glory, belongs almost entirely to Ms. Lawrence. She is the kind of movie star who turns everyone else into a character actor"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"If only Russell trusted Mangano's true story. Instead, he's turned her life into a over-staged mess of awkward exposition, contrived dialogue, and characters so willfully unreal they feel acrylic"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The improvisational flair, unpredictable tonal shifts and overt emotional lurches that highlighted 'American Hustle' and 'Silver Linings Playbook' are here less consistently inspired and affecting."	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"An exuberant and grittily determined Jennifer Lawrence hoists David O. Russell’s 'Joy,' a manically screwball-ish comedy-drama loosely based on the struggles of Joy Mangano (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS

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