Entertainment

Name: Entertainment
Genre: Drama
Released: November 13, 2015
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Amy Seimetz, John C. Reilly, Lotte Verbeek, Michael Cera, Neil Hamburger

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 13, 2015 | R

Starring: Amy Seimetz, John C. Reilly, Lotte Verbeek, Michael Cera, Neil Hamburger, Tye Sheridan

Summary: A broken, aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled byA broken, aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters. [Magnolia Pictures]… Expand

Director: Rick Alverson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Feb 2, 2015

While Entertainment lacks the focused critique of "The Comedy," it nevertheless offers a fascinating look at the tension between personal aspirations and the harsh realities holding them back. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Feb 2, 2015

As warped and sadistic as Entertainment is, its brilliance is in the embrace of humiliation and failure, and the way it forces us to confront and sit with those embarrassing, uneasy feelings. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Nov 12, 2015

Mr. Alverson jacks up the tension with exquisite restraint. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 19, 2015

There's a chic emptiness to Entertainment, undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance." Read full review

Kyle Smith

Nov 13, 2015

Somewhere on the axis where David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson and Joey Bishop intersect, a man in a Salvation Army tuxedo wanders the Mojave Desert supplying anti-comedy to every cocktail lounge and prison in his path. This is Entertainment. Read full review

The Guardian Jordan Hoffman

Feb 2, 2015

The on-stage moments of Entertainment are revelatory but, unfortunately, some of the in-between meat of the film doesn’t quite connect. Read full review

David Edelstein

Nov 16, 2015

Entertainment wears its contempt too arrogantly, fulsome in its emptiness. Read full review

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katharris417

Nov 15, 2015

Entertainment offers some genuine insight into its subject matter. Coupled with an astonishing central performance, it is a work that continually fascinates.

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Dec 29, 2016

Aggressively joyless. I should've known when I saw Tim Heidecker's name buried as the third writing credit that the experience would take an act of will to make it through. For two hours, Neil Hamburger juxtaposes his utter loathsomeness against the real world; a world comprised of quietAggressively joyless. I should've known when I saw Tim Heidecker's name buried as the third writing credit that the experience would take an act of will to make it through. For two hours, Neil Hamburger juxtaposes his utter loathsomeness against the real world; a world comprised of quiet hotel rooms, quiet audiences, and slovenly, average people. The accompany of a wide angle lens and occasional cinematographic spreads does nothing but maybe punctuate the main characters willful resistance to raise his own heart rate or coax a different result from a seemingly unforgiving environment. At best, you could sympathize with him. At worst, it felt like hate mail to the world.… Expand

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