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Donnybrook

2018

Tim Sutton

Frank Grillo, Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, James Badge Dale ...

4.7

432

Thriller Adapted from Frank Bill’s 2013 noir novel of the same name, the film follows a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare-knuckle brawl where a $100,000 prize goes to the last man standing.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"For Sutton (...) 'Donnybrook' marks a major step forward in both ambition and style"
		Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"This is a movie to which the term 'derivative' entirely applies, a repellent mixture of Malick-like dreaminess, Scorsese-esque brutality and the lurid shock/schlock of William Faulkner"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The movie becomes increasingly gripping as it draws us into this brutal reality."
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"There’s a dissonance between what’s essentially a simple midnight movie set-up and the suffocatingly overstylised direction ladled over the top (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"'Donnybrook' is a movie about, among other things, bare-knuckle fighting, but it’s the viewers who will feel beaten down"
		Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"A stunning, often flooring masterwork about desperation (...) Jamie Bell has never been better"
		Vikram Murthi rogerebert.com	"A stupid story that says and reveals absolutely nothing about anyone’s situation (...) Sutton fails to provide any of his subjects with three dimensions"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"While the movie develops a gripping and purposeful arc as it builds to the final act confrontation, the humorless aura has a tendency to stifle its characters’ humanity by drowning them in desperation."

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