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The Oath

2018

Ike Barinholtz

Ike Barinholtz, Tiffany Haddish, John Cho, Billy Magnussen ...

5.2

53

Action. Comedy. Thriller In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"An opportunity missed. Here’s a project that had the nerve to address these tensions in a megaplex environment, only to squander them on a standoff it pretends could be so glibly resolved."	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Clearly coming from the left but happy to make characters of all political stripes look bad, the film is often hard to take, offering laughs that are rarely cathartic enough to compensate"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Think 'The Purge', with jokes (...) Despite tackling our crazy times, 'The Oath' somehow winds up not quite crazy enough to assess them."	NEU
United States	Kyle Kohner The Playlist	"A hilarious look at a tumultuous, politically-charged family dinner (...) [It] is urgent and dark as it is funny (...) Barinholtz resists the urge to lapse into cynicism"	POS
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"True to real life but unsatisfying to actually experience, 'The Oath' doesn’t know exactly how to resolve the situation it backs itself into."	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"An uneven but (...) ambitious and provocative independent film"	NEU
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"The film struggles to find a satisfying conclusion to such an interesting set-up (...) 'The Oath' is a film of its time, and that immediacy is both its strength and its downfall."	NEU
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"[It] just turns into a mess of its own. This is not what we signed up for (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"The script has a lot to say, but it’s too busy at war with its messages to make a lasting statement (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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