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Assassination Nation

2018

Sam Levinson

Odessa Young, Abra, Danny Ramirez, Hari Nef ...

6.1

4,895

Thriller “Assassination Nation” follows four teenage girls in a small suburb who become the focus of unwanted, worldwide media attention after their personal information is leaked by an anonymous hacker.

	Author	Review
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"By the time Lily delivers a lecture about hypocrisy in front of the American flag, the electric youth of the fantastic first half feels like an immature screed."	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It doesn’t all work (...) but there’s enough filmmaking verve on display here to make me like it."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"While the sprawling mayhem has its moments, the movie works best when tethered to the real world (...) Wildly uneven storytelling"	NEU
United States	Jordan Ruimy The Playlist	"The first hour is overwhelmingly exciting (...) However, the ultra-violent finale goes over the top, lacking the pizzaz and inventiveness of the film’s earlier stages."	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Energetically lurid, gratuitously violent and a hell of a lot of fun (...) A throwback to black-comedy teen flicks of yore, but with a bitingly timely feel."	POS
United States	Perri Nemiroff Collider	"Enthralling and, by the end, truly empowering (...) A messy plot progression and worthwhile concepts that don’t get the necessary screen time"	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"'Assassination Nation' tells you right up front what to be appalled by, then simply delivers what it promised."	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Levinson has given us an angry movie for angry times, which doesn’t necessarily make it a clever or coherent commentary (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Lowry Empire	"It will keep cultural studies departments busy for years (...) The Trump era has its first dorm-room classic (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The bacchanalian violence belongs to a different type of movie – something like 'The Purge' – and this, for me, is much less interesting (...) [It] has got some gross-out chutzpah (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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