55 Steps
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) | Release Date: November 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichNov 15, 2018
Scene by scene you wish 55 Steps made you angrier than it does. Yet August's docile filmmaking acts as an emotional soporific, removing even the potential camp pleasures of Bonham Carter's histrionics. Read full review
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VarietyDennis HarveyNov 15, 2018
August, whose English-language films have seldom compared well to his distinguished Scandinavian ones, can’t elevate this material much above the flat, pat TV-movie earnestness it seems content to aim for. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinNov 13, 2018
The filmmakers’ choice to focus so heavily — and, unfortunately, dully — on the odd-couple friendship between the tightly-wound, workaholic Hughes (Hilary Swank) and the brashly spirited Riese (Helena Bonham Carter) instead of on the bigger-picture legal wranglings and wider effects of the landmark lawsuit against a San Francisco hospital may point to the chapter’s cinematic limitations. Read full review
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