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American Pastoral

2016

Ewan McGregor

Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert ...

5.5

2,104

Drama Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut, in which he also stars, is decently performed and delivers some potent scenes (...) But the filmmaking is prosaic when it should crackle with tension"
		Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A haunting, engrossing, often eerily timely adaptation. It's a movie that makes you think and feel"
		Andrew Barker Variety	"Ewan McGregor's directorial debut is as flat and strangled as Philip Roth's novel is furious and expansive."
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"McGregor catches the elegiac grandeur of Philip Roth's 1997 novel but filters out its bitter irony, historical sweep, and psychological complexity"
		Sam Adams The Wrap	“American Pastoral” isn’t an embarrassment in the vein of so many other Roth films, but the first task of any literary adaptation is to justify its own existence (...) McGregor’s movie is a half-hearted transcript"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"American Pastoral, Roth's magnum opus, needed a film revolutionary (...) to re-imagine it for the screen. McGregor's timid approach does no one any favors, including Roth – and especially the audience (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A flat and clumsy paper-doll melodrama that even some gorgeous cinematography and a raft of gifted, great-looking actors can't save"

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