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Grand Budapest Hotel

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  Grand Budapest Hotel Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
7.92 /10
 
Starring
Ralph Fiennes , Saoirse Ronan, Bill Murray
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Directed by: Wes Anderson
Written by: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness , inspired by the writing of Stefan Zweig

 
 
 
Released: 2014
   
Genre: DRAMA
RITES-OF-PASSAGE
OVERRATED
COMEDY
   
Origin: US/ Germany
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 99
 
 


 
MIXED Reviews


It's not as endearing as Moonrise Kingdom but not as tedious as The Darjeeling Limited. It offers an engaging 90+ minutes of unconventional, comedy-tinged adventure that references numerous classic movies while developing a style and narrative approach all its own.
(James Berardinelli, Reelviews)
For sure, it’s another example of style over substance — a richly deserved accusation that is always leveled at this kindergarten cop of a director, but I confess it’s a lot of scattered and disjointed fun.
(Rex Reed, New York Observer)
The Grand Budapest Hotel is no more than mildly funny. It produces murmuring titters rather than laughter -- the sound of viewers affirming their own acumen in so reliably getting the joke.
(David Denby, New Yorker)
As played with a melancholy rakishness by the handsomer-than-ever Fiennes, M. Gustave is one of Anderson’s more memorable creations — but he’s stranded in a movie that, for all its gorgeous frills and furbelows... never seemed to me to be quite sure what it was about.
(Dana Stevens, Slate)
Another meticulously stylish and deadpan Wes Anderson movie that walks the fine line between masterpiece and folly.
(Damon Wise, Empire)

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