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Jungleland

2019

Max Winkler

Charlie Hunnam, Jack O'Connell, Jessica Barden, Fran Kranz ...

5.8

730

Drama A reluctant bare-knuckle boxer "Lion" and his manager / brother "Stanley" must travel across the country for one last fight, but an unexpected travel companion "Sky" exposes the cracks in their bond along the way.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Punches are thrown but few bruises are left (...) Winkler and his writers lack the firm grasp of genre storytelling to steer Jungleland through all the twisty turns of its late action with assurance"	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A compelling piece of storytelling (...) Rather than a boxing movie in which drama plays out in a ring, the most satisfying element here is the examination of the complex relationship between two damaged young men"	POS
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"Some viewers will find the hamster-wheel nature of 'Jungleland' monotonous (...) Viewers more interested in performance and mood likely won’t mind"	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"Certain images are incredibly striking (...) There’s a mythic quality to [the characters'] cross-country odyssey, which is bloody and emotionally and physically brutal but also poignant"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"This movie is so thoughtfully acted and crafted you’d like to feel every emotion it’s communicating as strongly as it hopes you will. But those emotions (...) never lose the plastic scent of much-recycled artifice"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Lifted by a career-best performance from Charlie Hunnam, Max Winkler's hardscrabble boxing drama rope-a-dopes you into a knockout."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The sweaty clichés enacted along the way are uniformly tired and ultimately offensive"	NEG
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"'Jungleland' is more of a mood-piece than anything else, and on that level it works beautifully. The mood is strange, sad, and hypnotic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Ellen E. Jones The Independent	"This depiction of hardscrabble American life seems derived not so much from direct experience or empathetic observation, as from a handful of half-listened-to Bruce Springsteen albums (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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