The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Apple TV+ | Release Date: September 23, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
16
Negative:
10
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60
TimeStephanie ZacharekOct 3, 2022
Just because a movie is based on a true story doesn’t mean you have to fully buy it: The Greatest Beer Run Ever isn’t terrible, and it’s hardly great. But the worst thing you can say about it is that it’s almost as dreamily clueless as its hapless hero is. Read full review
60
Vanity FairRichard LawsonSep 30, 2022
Farrelly shows us the formative experience, but only a little of its consequence. Perhaps too much consideration of that would make the whole thing seem something less than great. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentSep 27, 2022
Peter Farrelly’s latest semi-serious effort is light, goofy and sometimes perilously frivolous. But like sharing a few beers with your buds, you soon warm to it. Read full review
58
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpSep 29, 2022
Farrelly’s too busy making a Big Important Movie instead of making a movie that matters. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJosh WiseSep 29, 2022
When it decides to sober up, the film’s comedy lurches into awkward attempts at melancholy. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 27, 2022
This “beer run” from Inwood, Manhattan, to Saigon and “up country” environs starts jaunty, gets somber and sentimental and then goes oh-so-very-wrong. You’ll feel it the instant it happens, just as I did. Read full review
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The New York TimesAmy NicholsonSep 22, 2022
Depth comes from Efron’s visible difficulty maintaining a smile as he comes to sense that he’s crossed the ocean only to discover a permanent gulf between him and his childhood friends. They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right. Read full review
50
IGNRafael MotamayorSep 15, 2022
Peter Farrelly's follow-up to Green Book is a war drama with some solid laughs and a great Zac Efron performance, but a manipulative script with ugly optics and boring visuals that never achieve the prestige it clearly wants. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubMurtada ElfadlSep 28, 2022
The arguments presented by the characters on each side are broad and reductive. There’s no nuance and no original thoughts. The information is obvious and presented at its least confrontational. It’s a scene meant to depict the moral dilemma at the center of its story, and it ends up being ridiculous. Read full review
42
The Film StageSoham GadreSep 28, 2022
Farrelly does everything to make this beer run as unfunny, plodding, and needlessly repetitive as possible. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 2, 2022
It’s hard to tell if The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a comedy that wants to be a drama or a drama that wants to be a comedy. Of course, a film can be both. This one, alas, is neither. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 2, 2022
[A] crass and manipulative warsploitation picture. Read full review
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The TelegraphRobbie CollinSep 29, 2022
The idea is that Chickie’s experiences will challenge his simplistic view of the conflict, but Farrelly frames his jaunt as a glorified gap year, with various atrocities repackaged as opportunities for personal growth. Napalm Read full review
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Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonSep 29, 2022
The film is messy and gets tangled up in its protagonist’s folly, but in the process, Zac Efron delivers a heartfelt and killer performance. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleSarah JaneSep 29, 2022
Most of all, I’m really struggling with why this movie was even made. Yes, it’s based on a true story, but is it one that needed telling on screen? Read full review
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The GuardianCharles BramescoSep 14, 2022
[Farrelly's] latest commits itself to regurgitating every Vietnam cliche with the laziest possible visual diction, led by an emotionally overextended Zac Efron. Read full review
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