Directed by David O. Russell, "Joy" stars Robert De Niro, Bradley
Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence. Is it worth your time? Here's what
critics are saying.
"Joy" is a movie directed by David O. Russell, which reunites Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper after "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle."
The movie is set for a Christmas day release, and the reviews are in already. From "The Hollywood Reporter" to "The Guardian," here's what critics are saying about movie;
"Joy is joyless, and easily David O. Russell's worst film," - The Verge.
"[The
movie] is loosely threaded together with slicky rendered sequences from
various key developments in its subject's life: Her courtship with her
sweet-natured Latin American husband, supportive advice from her close
pal, feuds with her father and various legal spats." - Indiewire
"Despite
another solid performance from Jennifer Lawrence, anchoring Russell's
sincerely felt tribute to the power of a woman's resolve in a man's
world, it's hard not to wish 'Joy' were better," Chang wrote. "That its
various winsome parts added up to more than a flyweight product that
still feels stuck in the development stage." - Variety
When
a film runs through four credited editors, it's usually a sign
that something's amiss, be it in pacing, narrative coherence, tonal
control and/or balance among diverse elements. All of these issues apply
here, but the combined energy, determination and talent of Russell and
his actors blast through the underbrush of unlikely plotting,
far-fetched coincidence and abrupt personality about-faces to keep the
audience on the high road of willing disbelief that all this could be
happening (it is based on a true story)," The Hollywood Reporter
"It's
an interesting situation. To feel inspired by the story of a battling
entrepreneurial underdog, audiences have to be assured and reassured
from the outset as to the story's reality." - The Guardian.
'Joy' also stars Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini and Elisabeth Röhm.
About film.
'Joy'
is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the
girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a
matriarch in her own right.
Betrayal,
treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in
this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of
family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
Allies
become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and
outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her
through the storm she faces."
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