The Pretenders
Cleopatra Entertainment | Release Date: October 4, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
14
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Overwhelming dislike based on 5 Critic Reviews
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2
Negative:
3
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The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerOct 3, 2019
Not only does the film offer a superficial reading of all the famous movies that inspired it, but there’s also an incredibly bro-ish sentiment to the whole thing, as if Franco and Boone binge-watched half the Criterion Collection while slamming down brewskies on the couch. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshOct 3, 2019
James Franco’s Pretenders begs the question: is this a film about bohemian artists or a parody of a film about bohemian artists? Because if we’re supposed to take this laughably trite and sexist claptrap seriously, one has to laugh. Read full review
10
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 3, 2019
As nostalgic twaddle goes, “Me and Phil and the New Wave Girl” (I mean Pretenders) initially feels like an innocuous treatment of the joys and sorrows of cinephilia and young love. The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies. Soon, though, it descends into several discrete modes of misogyny. Read full review
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