Stockholm
GEM Entertainment | Release Date: April 12, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenApr 30, 2019
Thanks to the excellence of its two key performances, “Stockholm” an uncommonly effective thriller, one with a heart and a brain. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinApr 17, 2019
An enlightening, lively, perhaps not unfamiliar outing. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 27, 2018
Stockholm, which gently massages actual events to serve as a fine vehicle for Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke, is far from the first movie to believably show a crime victim coming to sympathize with a criminal. But it's a funny and agile one. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakApr 9, 2019
As a comedy with a good-natured soul doing bad things to earn his surrogate brother freedom, Stockholm is a success. Read full review
63
Washington PostPat PaduaApr 23, 2019
Moviegoers may be happy to hum along with the jaunty soundtrack — and maybe even sympathize with the movie’s unlikely couple — but it’s unlikely to hold anyone entirely in its thrall. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 12, 2019
The smartest decision Budreau made at any point during production was to call his former collaborator on “Born to Be Blue,” Ethan Hawke, who keeps this sometimes frustrating film nimble and entertaining. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneApr 15, 2019
Budreau’s movie, entertaining as it is, leaves us little the wiser. Maybe it was a job for Bergman, after all. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 10, 2019
Drowsy in feel and muted in color, Stockholm is lightly amusing and watchable — mostly thanks to Hawke — but never makes the case that this is a story that needed to be told, with or without laughs. Read full review
60
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanApr 10, 2019
If you’re willing to take the movie for what it really is — a fairly generic caper inspired by, rather than based on, actual events — you’ll find just enough to appreciate. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedApr 12, 2019
Not very funny, and it takes so many liberties with the actual facts of the case that it doesn’t ring true, either. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichApr 12, 2019
The best thing you can say about Stockholm is that it’s good enough to prove that a much better film could be made from this story. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Simon HouptApr 11, 2019
Whenever it promises to spin into madcap nonsense, Budreau asserts a kind of tortured primness, as if chastened by the realization that this all actually happened to real people. And they seem to be having more fun than we are. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyApr 9, 2019
Yet another stilted comic thriller. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenApr 9, 2019
Forget Dog Day Afternoon, as the film doesn’t even clear the bar set by F. Gary Gray’s tense and exciting The Negotiator. Read full review
50
The PlaylistJonathan ChristianApr 4, 2019
The film is not meaningless, or even trifling, but, Stockholm never rises above mediocre, and that is what hurts the most. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyApr 27, 2018
Hawke is no stranger to elevating subpar material with a committed performance, but his fidgety crook-with-a-heart-of-gold act is undercut by Budreau’s uncreative use of the limited setting (almost the whole thing takes place inside the bank) and unskillful handling of the broad tone. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 27, 2018
The opening title says “Based on an absurd but true story,” yet there’s nothing absurd about the facts. Improbable? Yes. Hapless and desperate? Most definitely. But the absurdity — the impulse to giggle — is mostly there in the eye of the writer-director, Robert Budreau, who collaborated with Hawke two years ago on the entrancing Chet Baker biopic “Born to Be Blue” but here comes off as a far less sure-handed filmmaker. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJun 23, 2019
There’s comedy in its depiction of the Swedish prime minister as a caricature of even-temperedness, but from its gaudy 70s costuming to its goofy, wobbling tone, everything about this film feels uncomfortably broad. Read full review
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