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Burden

2018

Andrew Heckler

Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Tom Wilkinson ...

5.9

418

Drama Burden tells the true story of Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund) who opened the world famous Redneck Shop and KKK Museum on the historic town square of Laurens South Carolina in 1996, then was subsequently wrenched out of the clutches of this hate family through the love of a single mother (Andrea Riseborough) and the faith of a African American, Baptist Minister (Forest Whitaker). Burden was raised and indoctrinated into the KKK by Klan ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Interesting history, lax filmmaking (...) [It] bumps along for more than two hours without ever finding an aesthetic form"	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Alongside Forrest Whitaker and Andrea Riseborough, Hedlund delivers in a wrenching and real story that's both universal and eerily timely."	POS
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"As subtle as a sledgehammer (...) An underwhelming drama with an unconvincing lead performance (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"Garrett Hedlund's humble performance grounds this empathetic drama"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Though the themes of 'Burden' feel uncomfortably current, their execution is leaden and dismayingly artless."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Burden' is powered by the work of Garrett Hedlund and Andrea Riseborough"	POS
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"Overly simplistic (...) [It] asks questions it’s not really prepared to answer and proceeds from a set of dubious assumptions that undermine whatever nuance it does possess"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Hedlund does wonders showing us Burden’s hidden resources and the scars he’s still carrying. But there are character transitions missing in Burden’s transformation that might have taken us deeper into his life (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU

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