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The Hero

2017

Brett Haley

Sam Elliott, Krysten Ritter, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman ...

5.7

425

Drama An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.

	Author	Review
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"[Sam Elliott] rescues Brett Haley’s Sundance dramatic competition entry 'The Hero', cutting clean through the film’s pile of clichés with its gruff feeling and wry, weary wit."	NEU
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"This hackneyed, predictable senior drama doesn’t burnish [the actor's] strengths"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Throwing together a handful of familiar clichés in the hope that Elliott’s charm will carry the day (...) this film feels like a 30-page script stretched to 90-odd minutes."	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Haley may traffic in traditional sentiment, but again the actors elevate it."	POS
United States	Katie Walsh The Playlist	"A resonant depiction of a man fearlessly reckoning with his life, his image and, most importantly, his heart. Sam Elliott could not be more compelling."	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Elliott’s a master of understatement, and just watching him stare off into the distance, mulling mortality with a weathered cowboy stance, is true cinematic Zen."	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"There’s a charm in seeing Sam Elliott (...) It’s a shame that Haley gets in the way (...) The movie lacks so much poetry that it has Charlotte literally read poetry to Lee, as some type of wise grand finale."	NEU
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"Elliott's calmly affecting performance is overwhelmed by a doggedly conventional screenplay that often plays like end-of-life wish-fulfillment fantasy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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