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Aug 6, 2021 · It does matter what Stillwater has to say about Knox – and the cruellest part of it all is that McCarthy comes up empty. Stillwater is an empty gesture of a film. It doesn’t reckon with the ...
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Jul 29, 2021 · Oscar-winning writer-director Tom McCarthy ( Spotlight) and co-writers Marcus Hinchey and Thomas Bidegin have attempted to piece together a compelling piece of personal drama, at first smuggled in under the guise of an investigative procedural, but slowly collapsing inward to explore the intricacies of their protagonist’s motivations, compulsion...
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- Leigh Monson
Jul 30, 2021 · Stillwater - Metacritic. 2021. R. Focus Features. 2 h 19 m. Summary Bill (Matt Damon), an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.
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Jul 30, 2021 · “Stillwater” moves the action to the French port city of Marseilles and introduces us to Bill’s daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), after she’s already served five years of a nine-year prison sentence for the murder of her lover, a young Muslim woman.
Jul 25, 2021 · 'Stillwater' gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
Aug 4, 2021 · Stillwater, which was directed and co-written by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), has been advertised and described as a thriller. But it doesn’t open like one.
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Jul 9, 2021 · The best passages of “Stillwater” allow that kindness to flourish and take center frame, temporary liberating the movie from its dogged procedural template.
