Mojave
A24 | Release Date: January 22, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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6
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8
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniJan 23, 2016
It would better to call it Two Actors in Search of a Story. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldJan 23, 2016
In the cast, only Isaac makes a vivid impression, in a swaggery, relaxed turn that seems to imply that he’s in on the joke, or at least having a good time. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJan 21, 2016
Like the high desert that provides its main setting, William Monahan’s Mojave is dry, often windy and full of hot air. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 21, 2016
Is Mojave's twisty purposelessness showing how producers ruin the work of screenwriters, or is it evidence that screenwriters often need another set of eyes? Read full review
30
VarietyScott TobiasJan 20, 2016
Monahan isn’t required to satisfy bloodlust or to pay off conventional plot points, even if his screenplay for “The Departed” displayed an abundant talent for doing so. But he assumes too much in believing that the audience will connect in any way with a sour, prickly narcissist who’s trapped in the gilded cage of wealth and fame. Read full review
25
Boston GlobePeter KeoughJan 28, 2016
In his second directorial effort, Mojave, Monahan has no such map to follow, and he wanders in a land of sophomoric pretentiousness and banal profundities. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 18, 2016
With the film, director William Monahan offers audiences a bundle of fetishes dressed up as an existentialist thriller about the class system. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 14, 2016
Isaac pulls a full Tom Hardy by adopting a weirdo voice, awkward mannerisms and unknown motivations in a bid to give life to a villain who is, in his own words, pure “motiveless malignancy.” It doesn’t work, nor does anything else in this so-bad-it’s-good-no-wait-still-bad mess from William Monahan. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedJan 20, 2016
Mojave is 93 minutes of gibberish with guns and phony literary pretentiousness about two thugs in a duel of weapons and words that goes nowhere fast. Read full review
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