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A Simple Favor

2018

Paul Feig

Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Glenda Braganza ...

5.8

9,439

Mystery. Drama. Comedy Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) is a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie is joined by Emily's husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge.

	Author	Review
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"[A] clever, knotty, and sporadically sexy thriller (...) 'A Simple Favor' sets Kendrick loose"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Feig's bouncy comedy-thriller brings out the scrappy best in Kendrick and Lively and offers an unexpected take on the twists and turns of female friendship (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The performances by Kendrick and Lively (...) are so invigorating, so generous with pointed inflections and snappy gestures, that they fill the movie's good-humored, amply plotted emptiness."	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"Kendrick and Lively have never been funnier (...) [It] is neither straight-up comedy nor an out-and-out thriller. But it does all come good in the end (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"There are plum parts for Kendrick and Lively, whom Feig guides smoothly through the plot’s sudden swerves and swings. But the movie never sheds its aura of talented people trying to class up cheap material."	NEU
United States	Oliver Jones The New York Observer	"With its saucy French pop music and pastel Saul Bass-inspired credits, this film is so hungry to seem like a classic thriller that you come away charmed by its pure-hearted ambition (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Tom Russo Boston Globe	"Kendrick's interplay with Lively crackles, whether they're going for laughs or something darker. Both are big selling points (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"It's gratifying to see Lively and Kendrick both earning their keep in director Feig's borderline-nutso crime comedy (...) But even second-rate trashy turnarounds are worth savoring (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Maureen Lee Lenker Entertainment Weekly	"A twisty, Hitchcockian thriller laced with dark humor (...) The script is slightly too winding for its own good"	NEU
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"It's a thriller told with a broad sense of humor (...) It's insightful about the head games women can play with each other, but it doesn't burden itself with trying to be 'meaningful' (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Moments of emotional depth get lost amidst [its] superficial sheen (...) The filmmakers also attempt to graft a feminist message (...) but neither is handled deftly enough to really captivate."	NEG
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"[It] seems to yearn for a bygone era of nail-biter, but rather than wallow in pastiche, it comes up with something truly contemporary feeling."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"[Its] biggest strength lies in its two winning lead performances from Kendrick and Lively (...) When you add in a super cool OST the result is a delicious mix of mystery, dark thrills and sharp wit (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Molly Freeman Screen Rant	"'A Simple Favor' is a delightfully twisty psychological thriller with compelling performances, and much of Paul Feig's humor, but little substance (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU

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