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Born to Be Murdered

Beckett

2021

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino

John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook, Vicky Krieps ...

5.0

1,938

Thriller. Drama While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[A] spin on a familiar genre (...) it’s intriguing to see Filomarino experiment with the formula and exciting to imagine where his career might go from here."
		Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"For a film in which John David Washington lurches, staggers, stumbles, shambles, flounders, falters, wobbles, scrabbles and totters across an entire Greek province (...) 'Beckett' sure is dull."
		Roxana Hadadi AV Club	"The Fugitive but with millennials (...) Beckett abandons this more complex possibility, opting instead to weave and then anticlimactically unravel a web around its titular protagonist"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Thin and politically disengaged as this diverting Euro-thriller can be, it never forgets how even the most desperate of people can be left to suffer in plain sight"
		William Repass Slant	"Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment, which can also reflect the political instability and polarization of recent years (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Beckett clearly has potential on paper (...) Onscreen is another matter, though: Beckett is disappointingly under-cooked, with an oddly gluey pace for a for a man-on-the-run film."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Considering the amount of ground covered in the plot, this is a curiously undynamic film that struggles to inject urgency into the protagonist’s life-or-death situation."
		Muriel Del Don Cineuropa	"There are definitely lots of action scenes, and suspense-filled moments are similarly plentiful, but the movie doesn’t seem endowed with the humanity and sincerity that are required to move the audience"

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