The Trip to Greece
IFC Films | Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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27
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4
Negative:
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95
PolygonKaren HanMay 22, 2020
The pall of death automatically makes The Trip to Greece a more somber affair than its predecessors, but doesn’t make it devoid of fun. Read full review
88
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 20, 2020
Coogan and Brydon might scoff at such sentimentality, but over the course of the Trip films, they’ve shown us that world, at its most aspirationally easeful and epicurean. Even more brilliantly — and affectingly — they’ve constructed a world between them, an airy, reality-adjacent universe conjured in billowing clouds of witticisms, idle observations, passive-aggressive feints and silent, solitary reflections. Did they ever really live there? Maybe not. But it’s been a delightful place to visit. Read full review
83
The PlaylistChris BarsantiMay 18, 2020
As Odysseus returned home after his troubled journey to find yet more strife, Coogan and Brydon go back to their familiar schtick—long drives and touristy rambles punctuated by expensively minimalist dinners, all of it borne on a tide of joshing, snarky banter—only to discover more discomfort. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustJun 9, 2020
It’s a simple recipe and remarkably effective. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 21, 2020
It’s all so silly. But it’s also kind of great, like a single glass of sparkling wine after a really bad day. And the light dancing off the brilliant blue sea isn’t so bad, either. Read full review
80
TheWrapSteve PondMay 18, 2020
If “Greece” is the end of the “Trip” saga, as all involved say it will be, it’s a satisfying and even touching way to wrap up a decade-long demonstration of the proposition that all it takes is conversation to be entertaining. Read full review
80
ScreenCrushMatt SingerMay 18, 2020
The Trip to Greece reminds us that anyone who gets to take a picturesque holiday with good food and friends should savor every last second of it. Because it won’t last forever. And it could all end when you least expect it. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpMay 21, 2020
If you, like critics, consider Coogan selfish or asinine, the film will validate that view, but for a purpose, and through the sharpest of organic comedy. Read full review
75
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 21, 2020
You can’t taste all the miraculous food the sorry men of The Trip to Greece are served. But you can, at least, relate to the feeling the film evokes. It’s the wonder of new experience giving even further gravity to all that’s come along and happened before—and will, on some dusty day in some impossible future, hopefully happen again. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleMay 21, 2020
Watching The Trip to Greece at a time when such travel is impossible has only heightened the considerable pleasures of these movies (and made the food all the more appetizing). But mostly it’s reinforced the simple delight of sitting table-side with Coogan and Brydon. For all their trivial sparring, they are exceedingly good company. Read full review
75
ConsequenceMatt MelisMay 21, 2020
Fortunately, the fourth and final installment of the series, The Trip to Greece, packs plenty of pathos to match its sights and silliness. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMay 21, 2020
What makes Steve and Rob so funny is that they’re so human: petty, insecure, rivalrous, as well as charming and hilarious. Nothing’s more human than sadness, not even laughter, and laughter The Trip to Greece has to offer in plenty. What’s their next destination? Wherever it is, the important thing is that there be one. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 20, 2020
The Trip to Greece isn’t nonstop hilarity, but if you get into the rhythm of it, it’s laidback and pleasing. It’s an enjoyable trip in good company. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 20, 2020
It’s probably best to call it after this one. But I remain astonished at the rewatchability of these “Trip to” films. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMay 20, 2020
The Trip To Greece, while mostly very laugh out loud funny, is also rather more somber than the prior installments and also has, in Julian Barnes’ phrase, the sense of an ending. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMay 20, 2020
The silliness is as sharp and improvisational as ever, as are the impressions. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDavid RobbMay 18, 2020
The series’s ambient preoccupation with death is foregrounded more than ever before with this film’s main dramatic subplot. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 18, 2020
I find them hilarious, and I think this fourth and “final” outing in their “trilogy” is the funniest since the first. Read full review
75
The Film StageJordan RaupMay 18, 2020
The narrative might get a touch too solemn, injecting a bit of reality when it comes to unanticipated hardships, but some welcome closure is offered without tying things up with a neat bow. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 18, 2020
While the laughs are still easy and frequent, this time around they feel more like the exception than the rule, and the final moments irrevocably tip the scales toward the unironic sobriety the series has been flirting with for so long (a replica of the Trojan horse comes to symbolize how this supposed romp sneaks past your defenses). Read full review
70
VoxAlissa WilkinsonMay 27, 2020
Taken together, the movies are a meditation on middle age and mortality, on how our irrevocable life choices, even when they’re the right ones, will haunt us for the rest of our lives. Read full review
70
The New YorkerAnthony LaneMay 25, 2020
To see Coogan and Brydon being waited upon by unmasked servers, who carry the plates with bare hands, is to yearn for the touchstones of a mythical past. As one kindly waitress inquires, in a lull between courses, “Do you want to continue?” Yes, if we can. Forever. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 21, 2020
Sure, the formula has worn thin; this installment is, in fact, the end of the road. But what was great at the outset — supersmart banter coupled with sensational celebrity impressions — is still pretty darned good, and the meander takes an unexpected turn. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 21, 2020
By the time these two comedians are served dessert, they’re bickering over Coogan’s level of fame regarding a fake eulogy and trading celebrity impersonations. Fourth verse, same as the first. Only the scenery has changed. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMay 20, 2020
The Trip films have a remarkable (and welcome) tonal consistency, and there’s plenty here of those lively, escapist elements that have made these movies so charming and irresistible (and such a comfort at this particularly bizarre moment in time). Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 18, 2020
The Trip to Greece marks a spirited and convivial return to form, even if it’s lofty enough to present Coogan and Brydon’s six-day journey through Greece as a retracing of the path of Odysseus. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 20, 2020
Watching it all unfold in my sweatpants while shoving frozen pizza into my gullet, I found it deeply, unshakably depressing. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 21, 2020
At least everyone seems self-aware about how much they’re repeating themselves yet again. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMay 21, 2020
I’m coming down harder than I meant to. If you’re a fan of the series – and I am – you’re still going to fan. (There’s no entry point for newcomers; it’s too in medias res.) The scenery is lush. There’s ever the pleasure in Steve and Rob’s company. I just wanted to feel by film’s end like I’d arrived somewhere new. Like the journey had been pulling me somewhere inevitable but still enlightening. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisMay 20, 2020
The “Trip” movies have always been self-aware about their own weightlessness, wringing laughs by needling the men and their vanity. That’s as smart as it is convenient; this time, though, it also feels like a cop-out. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMay 18, 2020
This is a lazy feature with few laughs and fewer vicarious travel thrills, despite some nice photography of craggy coastlines and ancient villages. Read full review
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