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A Hologram for the King

Ein Hologramm für den König

2016

Tom Tykwer

Tom Hanks, Tom Skerritt, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen ...

5.6

5,018

Drama. Comedy A tale about a struggling businessman who "travels to a Saudi Arabian city in a last ditch attempt to stave off a foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition and do something great."

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A beautiful and eccentric waking dream (...) This is quite simply a beautiful film to behold (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'A Hologram for the King' is a baffling film (...) The problem is not that anything on screen is troubling, it's that nothing there, not even star Tom Hanks, is capable of holding our interest or attention for very long"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's a strange thing: A Hologram for the King is mostly about a series of nuisances, annoyances and stresses, and yet it's a pleasure from beginning to end"	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"It may start with a big burst of energy, but this is a sad, somber film about a world that's slowly, knowingly losing touch with the real"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"A rambling, well shot but inconsequential curio (...) The movie is only intermittently fascinating (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Though it isn’t without its awkward missteps, the movie generally finds Tom Tykwer back in form after the muddled mess of 'Cloud Atlas'"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Not even the mighty Tom Hanks can save this scattershot adaptation of Dave Eggers' lost-soul novel. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Nigel M. Smith The Guardian	"A meandering mess of half-baked storylines that amount to little. Hanks’s affable presence keeps it all afloat (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"It takes an actor with the finesse of Tom Hanks to turn a story of confusion, perplexity, frustration and panic into an agreeably uncomfortable comedy"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"It's that rare fish-out-of-water story in which the fish miraculously manages to stop needing water, and learns to crave air instead"	POS

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