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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

R 141 minutes EN Thriller , Drama , Mystery , Crime
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Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
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Jeff Bridges
Father Daniel Flynn / Dock O'Kelly
Cynthia Erivo
Darlene Sweet
Lewis Pullman
Miles Miller
Dakota Johnson
Emily Summerspring
Cailee Spaeny
Rose Summerspring
Jon Hamm
Laramie Seymour Sullivan / Dwight Broadbeck
Chris Hemsworth
Billy Lee
Nick Offerman
Felix O'Kelly
Xavier Dolan
Buddy Sunday
Shea Whigham
Dr. Woodbury Laurence
Mark O'Brien
Larsen Rogers
Charles Halford
Sammy Wilds

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Ok, Wow, I don't think I've seen a movie like that since the 90s. Some have gotten close, but this one absolutely stinks of clever 90s independent film...
...at least in that era where studios were putting serious bank behind indie films in an effort to score awards and produce something new that audiences would eat up.
The wow sort of starts with the soundtrack, which is brilliant found music that not only fits the era, but fits the film like a globe.
The casting is perfect, with a special shout out to Cynthia Erivo who sold her role as an R&B singer as if, well, she is one, but the delivery was absolutely brilliant on her end, despite the fact that she is one in real life. I guess it's where basically playing yourself pays off in spades.
She was brilliant, but then, so was absolutely everyone else.
And this is all put together with a plot that twists and turns and situations that just move from bad to worse in the best possible Hollywood way.
It's a movie you have to see.

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The most negative review

Lewis Pullman is the best actor in this movie. In every single scene in this movie, he shines. He has very expressive eyes. His acting is the best part of this movie. There are moments in this movie where it looks like it's a good movie but the exact moment Chris Hemsworth`s character shows up at EL Royale the movie goes to shit!! Every scene of Chris Hemsworth`s in this movie is a cringe. he was the worst part of the movie. I was massively disappointed with Jon Hamm`s character. What a waste of such a good actor! Cynthia Erivo singing was beautiful. she was the second-best actor in this movie.

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Production companies: 20th Century Fox, Goddard Textiles, TSG Entertainment
Production countries: United States of America
Budget: $32,000,000
Revenue: $31,882,724

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