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Collateral Beauty

2016

David Frankel

Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña ...

5.8

9,818

Drama When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it's not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Will Ashton The Playlist	Manipulative and over-engineered (...) 'Collateral Beauty' fails to make an impression, and contains not nearly enough authentic beauty to make it worthwhile"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Will Smith heads up an A-list cast in the soggiest, sappiest, most painfully sentimental Christmas movie in ages (...) It's all very Christmas Carol, minus the warmth, wonder and genius of Dickens (...) Rating: 0 (out of 0)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Whitty New York Daily News	"What starts as a study of a grieving father soon turns into a mediocre holiday fable (...) Will Smith should be looking for better movies"	NEG
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"A fluffy story of tragedy and friendship and hugging and important life lessons (...) Even at a brief 96 minutes, 'Collateral Beauty' is too long by half (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"By the end of 'Collateral Beauty', you’d have to have a heart of stone for the film not to get to you a bit, but even if it does, you may still feel like you’ve been played."	NEU
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"A Chernobyl of toxic sentimentality (...) This isn’t Frank Capra. It is emotional literacy porn, like an aspirational self-help bestseller written by Keyser Söze (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"An all-star cast submits to flagrant actor abuse in “Collateral Beauty,” which is every bit as lame as its title"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] doesn't work on its own manipulative terms, spreading its trail of goopy sentiment and inspirational homilies with technical finesse and some decent acting (...) Audiences unconcerned about their sugar levels might eat it up."	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A plot so fantastically unhinged it almost defies synopsis (...) Just when you think the film can’t get any more mawkish or fatuous, it always surprises you (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"Saddled with more sentiment than even the festive season can excuse, Collateral Beauty corrals an all-star cast into the schmaltziest kind of year-end offering"	NEG

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