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Viper Club

2018

Maryam Keshavarz

Susan Sarandon, Matt Bomer, Edie Falco, Lola Kirke ...

5.2

46

Drama A war correspondent gets taken hostage while on assignment, prompting his mother impatient with the government's lack of concern - to take matters into her own hands.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dennis Harvey Variety	"This earnest drama (...) feels like it would be most at home on the small screen (...) Despite the good performances and thoughtful assembly there’s a degree of tedium"
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"If 'Viper Club’s' original setup keeps things interesting, the pedestrian and sometimes overtly sentimental filmmaking undermines what could have been a more powerful movie."
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"[Sarandon] brings an inner fire and aching sense of maternal desperation that turns 'Viper Club' into something richer and more layered"
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"'Viper Club' falters with mawkish flashbacks of the mother and son, and with its ham-fisted, repeated emphasis on the smarm of government officials. But it is mostly gripping."
		Dan Callahan The Wrap	"Keshavarz has tailored this role so that it plays to all of Sarandon’s strengths (...) It’s admirable in many ways that this movie refuses to behave as a conventional thriller"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"There’s just enough to make the film a cut above your average headline-driven drama and not quite enough to shoot it into the stratosphere (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Odie Henderson rogerebert.com	"The film is so busy constructing itself that it forgets to nurture the drama of its central maternal bond (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"

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