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Cherry

Cherry

2021

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Forrest Goodluck ...

5.8

1,428

Drama. War. Romance It the true life story of Nico Walker, a former Army medic who returned from Iraq with extreme undiagnosed PTSD, fell into opioid addiction and began robbing banks.

	Author	Review
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"Eventually 'Cherry' breaks free enough of its influences to present a credible, at times harrowing, American addiction tragedy"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	·The Russos lift flourishes out of everything from “Natural Born Killers” to “Far From Heaven” to Wes Anderson (...) Yet they never convince us of the organic truth of the story they’re telling"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The well-worn drama gets high marks for style and proficiency, but you don’t have to be Nostradamus to know exactly where it’s going every step of the way (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"Tom Holland is such a terrific actor he can almost make you forgive the faults and punishing overlength of 'Cherry,' yet another addiction drama that doesn't know when to quit."	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"An overly effortful attempt to do something big and nervy and relevant (...) it’s easy to see the seams of the Russos’ ambition"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A powerful real-life story (...) 'Cherry' is at times almost overwhelming in its raw and real depiction of addiction (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"At times the resulting sense of discomfort can help challenge the viewer, but Cherry isn’t sufficiently fresh to be challenging enough."	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"In the busy first 15 minutes, a deflating feeling sinks in that these guys must have seen Goodfellas a hundred times (...) Hopelessly derivative."	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"The directors deserve credit for weaving together so many contemporary issues into a single, digestible story but there’s too much material here to do consistently well in a 2 ½-hour movie."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"If the Russos are looking to break from the Marvel mould, Tom Holland seems ready to smash his (...) There’s a confidence behind the camera that recalls Danny Boyle’s more bravura work (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"The real-life story of former opioid addict Nico Walker would make a good movie, but this one suffers from constant style over substance."	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"The Russo brothers provide their Spider-Man a great acting opportunity, but their film feels familiar and facile (...) [It] plays like a cover version of older, better movies about war and drugs."	NEU
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"'Cherry' is an earnest star-vehicle that falls short of both its star and its story."	NEU
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"A bombastic epic of suffering (...) it’s about as long as an Avengers movie, and as subtle, too."	NEG
United States	Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"'Cherry' comments on itself compulsively, and the results are mixed (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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