Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: April 17, 2015
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hotfromcauldronApr 17, 2015
True Story is a sleeper. No really, it almost put me to sleep. A disgraced reporter- doing a Brian Williams- forms a symbiotic relationship with an alleged killer to save his career and find himself. Motivations ring false. Hill and FrancoTrue Story is a sleeper. No really, it almost put me to sleep. A disgraced reporter- doing a Brian Williams- forms a symbiotic relationship with an alleged killer to save his career and find himself. Motivations ring false. Hill and Franco drone on and on—with Felicity Jones as a wooden wedge between this blossoming bromance. All involved take center stage exploiting the victims- a mother and her three young children- for personal gains - including the producers of a very unnecessary story to be told. It’s rare I despise every character on screen. And the fact that all three are still in each others lives - is sick - I swear. Expand
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kussygonzalezAug 1, 2015
This movie is somewhere in between bad and terrible and I can't decide which. I thought that the plot was building up to a Tyler Durden, I-don't-really-exist thing. But it was really just Jonah Hill having a weird man-crush on James FrancoThis movie is somewhere in between bad and terrible and I can't decide which. I thought that the plot was building up to a Tyler Durden, I-don't-really-exist thing. But it was really just Jonah Hill having a weird man-crush on James Franco and then nothing happens; no twist, no suicide, no nudity. Come on! Give us something! Expand
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LamontRaymondApr 21, 2015
Flat out boring. The trailer suggests much more to the story, but it simply isn't there. Definitely pass. And Franco? Ugh. All he does is squint to act. Pass.
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SeanChrisSep 17, 2015
The acting in this movie was high level, very emotional and a calm storm at times. The biggest killer for me is that the events take place between 2001 and 2003, yet the characters have smartphones. Jill Barker (Michael Finkel's Girlfriend)The acting in this movie was high level, very emotional and a calm storm at times. The biggest killer for me is that the events take place between 2001 and 2003, yet the characters have smartphones. Jill Barker (Michael Finkel's Girlfriend) has an iPhone, a phone that did not come out until 2007. This alone kills it for me, check your facts, especially if it is a "True Story"! Expand
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BroyaxJan 7, 2020
Un machin assez classique mais moins procédurier qu'attendu, sauf vers la fin tout de même, lorsqu'il faut statuer sur l'enfoirnaze supposé ou l'innocent injustement accusé (encore un complot) d'avoir zigouillé toute sa famille.

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Un machin assez classique mais moins procédurier qu'attendu, sauf vers la fin tout de même, lorsqu'il faut statuer sur l'enfoirnaze supposé ou l'innocent injustement accusé (encore un complot) d'avoir zigouillé toute sa famille.

Le doute s'installe cependant, comme dans bien des films de ce genre et il faut reconnaître à James Franco de laisser poindre quelque hésitation... mais pas bien longtemps. De façon somme toute prévisible dans cette espèce d'étrange relation entre le fouille-merde en quête du Pulitzer et la duplicité du taulard à la recherche de publicité, le film s'enlise pesamment et inexorablement jusqu'au procès.

Tout ça pour aboutir à un pétard mouillé et tout ça pour ça, à somnoler devant ce film d'une lenteur incroyable ! heureusement que la très jolie Felicity Jones est là, elle nous a presque réveillé. Une petite actrice à suivre, dans de bien meilleurs films que cette vraie daube (à oublier aussi sec) j'espère.
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