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Brad's Status

2017

Mike White

Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer, Michael Sheen ...

6.0

2,825

Drama. Comedy A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A piercing satire of first-world privilege from sardonic maestro Mike White (...) White is savvy enough to know what he’s doing"	POS
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"A droll and affecting male-midlife-crisis comedy (...) The film is sly and perceptive, overcoming a slightly underpowered middle section to sneak up on you in the final stretch"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"There’s a great deal of perceptive humor here (...) It’s a film that’s in need of more confident, subtle direction (...) 'Brad’s Status' is a frustrating concoction (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Ben Stiller gives a soulful performance (...) White’s movie is a heartfelt, genuine portrait of midlife frustrations"	POS
United States	Robert Abele The Wrap	"Bitingly amusing (...) White’s approach to satire is always flecked with piercing empathy and a keen sense of the real world around his usually myopic worriers."	POS
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"If 'Brad's Status' were a person on Twitter, you'd mute them so hard (...) With little drama or humor, it mostly amounts to watching a guy complain about his fairly decent life for 100 minutes."	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A career-high performance from Ben Stiller fuels this poignant character study (...) Stiller’s is a magnificent performance, both comic and touching"	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"[It] lacks insight (...) Tedious (...) 'Brad’s Status' plays like a film created by people who actually never experienced, directly or indirectly, anything its characters are going through."	NEG

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