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7 Days in Entebbe

Entebbe

2018

José Padilha

Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer ...

5.4

2,036

Thriller. Drama. Action Four hijackers take over an airplane bound to Entebbe, Uganda in 1976 in an effort to free of dozens of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"The movie just seems pedestrian in comparison to dramatically complex and dynamically structured terrorism-related dramas like 'United 93' or 'Zero Dark Thirty'"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"It is the machinations between Rabin and Peres that make for the most compelling drama (...) [Padilha] pulls his punches to an enervating degree"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"[It] goes deeper than previous movies but still falls victim to dramatic inertia (...) It never fully fleshes out the Palestinian hijackers with the same texture as it does the German ones."
		Jonathan Romney The Guardian	"Why does 'Entebbe' barely lift off the runway? Partly because much of the action (...) feels so sluggish (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"[It] does maintain a propulsive pace and a sense of mounting jeopardy (...) [The dialogue] is full of tiresome revolutionary slogans and characters explaining their motivations."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A reasonably efficient action movie (...) What should unfold like an unsettling chapter in a long, tragic story — or a tale of cruelty and heroism — feels more like an old TV show."
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The dialogue errs on the side of the didactically obvious (...) One appreciates the film because it’s easy to imagine someone doing worse"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"'7 Days in Entebbe' is the work of smart people who never quite figured out how to tell this story"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"The dance itself makes a much more powerful, and ultimately poetic, point (...) The dance’s themes of conformity and deviation resonate powerfully"

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