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The Dinner

2017

Oren Moverman

Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Richard Gere, Rebecca Hall ...

4.4

1,052

Mystery. Drama When Stan Lohman (Richard Gere), a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul (Steve Coogan) and his wife Claire (Laura Linney) to join him and his wife Katelyn (Rebecca Hall) for dinner at one of the town’s most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night. While Stan and Paul have been estranged since childhood, their 16-year- old sons are friends and share a tragic secret.

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Too many subplots crowd out the meaty main course."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Moverman (...) delivers a savage tale of sibling rivalry that gives its talented cast plenty of dark material to dig through."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Soggy melodrama and indigestible ham all round (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Lee Marshall Screendaily	"It’s also an unbalanced, uneven ride, a distracting hot and cold shower of intense scenes featuring four terrific actors and long, meandering passages of flashback filler."
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Moverman (...) is a shrewd naturalistic showman who knows how to portray the intensity of psychological damage without overhyping it."
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"[It] is a bitter consommé with a nasty black fly floating slowly to the surface (...) It’s the pace and panic of modernity Moverman grasps best as morally corrosive forces (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"There are about three or four rich and provocative films happening on top of each other [in 'The Dinner'] (...) But in its current state, this discordant mix of tones, themes and performance styles just doesn’t quite add up."
		Kenji Fujishima Slant	"One of the pleasures, though, of watching 'The Dinner' unfold is the way that Moverman frequently reveals new sides of these characters, constantly challenging the audience's preconceived notions about them."

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