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Run This Town

2019

Ben Platt, Mena Massoud, Nina Dobrev, Scott Speedman ...

Drama After graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper. In his mind he’s the next Woodward (but he’s probably more of a Bernstein). A year in, he realizes that maybe the paper business is no longer what he’d seen in the movies. Instead of investigative journalism, he is writing easily consumable Top 10 Lists - Best Hot Dogs in the City! Ten Ways to Tell You Grew Up in the 90s! After the paper is hit with another round of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[A] rare independent film that feels like it bites off way more than it can chew (...) [It's] as if Tollman convinced himself that speaking quickly is the same thing as having something smart to say. It’s not."	NEG
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Tollman is savvier on [the] details than on the big picture: The movie never quite reconciles its assorted perspectives into a coherent point of view."	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An involving but stretched-thin journo procedural (...) The screenplay also fails to convince on some fronts"	NEU
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"The rapid-fire pacing is continually riveting, calling back to the great political thrillers of yesteryear. There’s also plenty of parliamentary intrigue"	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"At the center of the untidy narrative (...) two young men played by very fine actors gradually emerge as morally compromised but irresistibly fascinating co-protagonists."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Smart, ambitious and impressive, 'Run This Town' is the best kind of feature directing debut, a film that entertains and makes you look forward to what will come next."	POS
Canada	Radheyan Simonpillai Now Toronto	"[It] evokes the chaotic energy of our late mayor, but there's something soulless at the centre"	NEU

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