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Stillwater

100 Movies of 2021

Stillwater

2021

Tom McCarthy

Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin, Lilou Siauvaud ...

6.2

5,579

Drama. Thriller Bill is an american oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma (Matt Damon) who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin), in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

	Media	Author	Review
		Ed Potton The Times	"Matt Damon’s new film has a stirring mix of brutality and sweetness that’s an audience-pleaser (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ian Freer Empire	"'Stillwater' delivers two films for the price of one (...) it delivers a mostly entertaining, if overlong thriller-drama (…) Damon makes 'Stillwater' worthwhile. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"[The writers] let certain things happen off screen, focusing instead on seemingly mundane snapshots that reveal far more about character."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Matt Damon gives a solid performance (...) [But the] story is clunky, old-fashioned and predictable when it’s not implausible"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] is the kind of original Hollywood production that would make you say 'they don’t make them like that anymore'"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A muddled, tonally misjudged, badly acted, uncertainly directed and frankly dubious drama, something that falls into the so-bad-it’s-bad bracket (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Croll The Wrap	"The seams between these very disparate styles of filmmaking certainly show (...) Still, McCarthy should be applauded for his audacity in even attempting the fusion"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The film’s tonal shifts and strained conceit undermine a drama that, if nothing else, never goes where one expects."
		Jason Gorber rogerebert.com	"A slow-moving narrative (...) Damon’s take is pitch-perfect and even the film at its most over-the-top remains anchored thanks to his believable quietude (...) The end result is something worth sticking around for"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"A deeply personal human drama disguised as a crime thriller (...) Matt Damon delivers an indelible, implosive performance in 'Stillwater' (...) [It] is only beginning to haunt your dreams"

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