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It’s Only the End of the World

Juste la fin du monde

2016

Xavier Dolan

Gaspard Ulliel, Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux ...

6.2

4,707

Drama Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Xavier Dolan's most mature work is also his most unbearable (...) The result is a frequently excruciating dramatic experience in which characters seem almost never to stop talking"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The claustrophobia of family has rarely been so well-wrought as in the latest highly stylised – and highly polarising – drama (...) Dolan has made insufferable films in the past but this isn’t one of them (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The Canadian director's latest feature isn't one of his best, but it's not a total misfire (...) he's crafted the semblance of a substantial movie that never quite gets where it was supposed to go"	NEU
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"A disappointment, even for the Dolan faithful (...) It's Only the End of the World is likely to unite the pro- and anti-Dolan factions in broad agreement: It's not very good"	NEG
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"Dolan had access to bigger budgets, an international pool of actors and, for the first time, significantly heightened expectations. But 'It’s Only The End of the World' capitalizes on none of those things"	NEG

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