The Party

Roadside Attractions | Release Date: February 16, 2018

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Ratings

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axlrosenApr 25, 2018

A movie full of obnoxious people who fight for no reason. Everyone's personality is turned up to 11, to try to make things interesting I guess, but it just makes things seem so unrealistic. I guess if everyone's always pissed off andA movie full of obnoxious people who fight for no reason. Everyone's personality is turned up to 11, to try to make things interesting I guess, but it just makes things seem so unrealistic. I guess if everyone's always pissed off and insulting each other for no reason, that's supposed to be dramatic or funny?… Expand

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GreatMartinMar 6, 2018

The movie starts with Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) opening the door and pointing a gun at one of her unseen guests. The guests are friends of her and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) who are celebrating Janet’s peak as a career politician.The movie starts with Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) opening the door and pointing a gun at one of her unseen guests. The guests are friends of her and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) who are celebrating Janet’s peak as a career politician.

April (Patricia Clarkson), Janet’s best friend, has a sharp tongue which is always in use, has come with her boyfriend Gottfried (Bruno Ganz), a life coach, who she plans to break up with. Martha, (Cherry Jones) a feminist college professor, arrives at the party with her much younger lover Jinny (Emily Mortimer) who informs Martha that she pregnant, with triplets. Tom (Cillian Murphy), a coke sniffing, gun carrying banker, arrives apologizing for his wife, who works for and with Janet, explaining that she is running late and will there soon.

For the next hour, we watch and hear couples talking about politics, cheating, life, children and what each accomplished or didn’t and how they think about all things. In what is supposedly a farce and comedy, except for Clarkson’s bitter humor and Murphy’s way over the top acting there really isn’t too much to this movie except I did not see the ending, the last line, coming.

This is the second film in a week, the other being “1945”, photographed in black and white, with the latter running 91 minutes and “The Party” 71 minutes and neither are worth the time.… Expand

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BHBarryFeb 18, 2018

“The Party” was written and directed by Sally Potter and stars Kristin Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson and Emily Mortimer along with some other fine actors. Unfortunately, the fame and talent of these thespians cannot save this wordy and“The Party” was written and directed by Sally Potter and stars Kristin Scott-Thomas, Patricia Clarkson and Emily Mortimer along with some other fine actors. Unfortunately, the fame and talent of these thespians cannot save this wordy and unworthy film as it manages, in about 75 minutes, to bore and annoy those foolish enough to have purchased tickets to see it. Ms. Potter has confused long winded orations and improbable circumstances with dark comedy…and it just doesn't work. To make matters worse, the film is in black and white which aids and abets the displeasure of having to watch it. I give the film a rating of 2 and suggest to members of the viewing public that they find any excuse at all to rsvp that they cannot attend “The Party”.… Expand

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