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The Other Side of the Wind

2018

Orson Welles

John Huston, Robert Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg ...

6.0

925

Drama The story of a legendary director named J.J. "Jake" Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie-also entitled The Other Side of the Wind...

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The end result feels like a plausible fulfillment of the style Welles himself established for it (...) [A] sincere, carefully and astutely judged assemblage"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Is Orson Welles' legendary final film a compelling movie? The parable of Hollywood corruption he would have made? Yes and yes. But it's still just a tantalizing scrapbook."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The chaotic, jumbled 'The Other Side of the Wind' isn’t for everyone — just folks who cares about the history of film and the master builder who helped make it great (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The result is messy and meandering, but always in that distinctive Wellesian way that proves his talent was unparalleled even when it fell apart."	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"As a mad satire of movie-world tumult, and a furious love letter to the business that made and unmade its maker, it could scarcely be improved."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This autobiographical satire is just as wild, dated and brilliant as you’d expect (...) This is a crazy, dishevelled, often hilarious film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Vulture	"A meta-masterpiece (...) Don’t dig too deep into 'The Other Side of the Wind': It’s largely surface. But what a surface."	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"'The Other Side of the Wind' is a fascinating film, and watching this assemblage it occurred to me that it remained unfinished by Welles in his lifetime by design."	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"The result is a fascinating sprawl of technique, chaos, personality, and legacy."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Perplexing, sometimes exhausting but never less than fascinating (...) [It] comes across as both boldly innovative and as a somewhat outré 70s period piece"	POS

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