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Everest

2015

Baltasar Kormákur

Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Debicki ...

6.3

26,555

Adventure. Drama Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain in 1996, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"Although hardly a peak achievement, Baltasar Kormakur's Himalayan epic is a properly grueling, strikingly unsentimental chronicle of the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A gripping and immersive dramatization (...) You could say Everest is a disaster movie in the old Hollywood sense of the term, but it doesn't feel like one. And that's a good thing"
		Tim Grierson Village Voice	"While it's impossible not to be somewhat caught up in these climbers' life-or-death struggle, Everest is oddly uninvolving - it depicts a horrific scenario in an underwhelming, distancing way"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A fact-based thriller that’s light on thrills (...) At the end of the film, audiences may feel they have laboriously made the summit, and come back – without getting much of a view (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Equal parts spectacle and harrowing survival tale (...) with the IMAX-enhanced thrills masterfully engineered to bring its mountain-climbing fears to horrific light."
		Kim Newman Empire	"Spectacular and well-acted, this suffers from much the same problem as the situation it depicts — too many people on the mountain and too many threads to follow so that affecting individual stories get lost in the snow. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

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