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The Tax Collector

2020

David Ayer

Bobby Soto, Shia LaBeouf, Chelsea Rendon, Lana Parrilla ...

4.2

511

Thriller. Drama David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm's way.

	Author	Review
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite a lot of admirable aim (...) this grim bloodbath feels too routine to be of much interest."	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"It’s mostly just a slog of vulgar threats and violent outbursts, trading substance for anger until the credits bring some measure of peace."	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] is bloody, barely coherent and about as fun as having your face dragged across asphalt from a moving SUV."	NEG
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"Combined with Ayer's continued storytelling missteps, 'The Tax Collector' amounts to a lot of blood and brutality without the soulfulness to match (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jason Bailey The Playlist	"Why would you want to subject yourself to a film this unrelentingly vile and ugly?"	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"David Ayer’s generic gangland thriller presents a cartoonishly exaggerated showdown between good and evil."	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Where does one even begin with a movie that’s so deeply incompetent that it practically defies criticism?"	NEG
United States	Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times	"[It] relies on a trite visual language built on obvious flashbacks and bland imagery that match the unimaginatively dreadful writing where every Latino in sight is a gangster."	NEG

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