Collateral Beauty
Oscar-winning director David Frankel (Dear Diary) directs an all-star ensemble cast in a drama that features Will Smith, Edward Norton and Keira Knightley.
When successful New York advertising executive Howard Inlet (Smith) is sent on a downward spiral after experiencing a personal tragedy, his colleagues devise a plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.
- Director:
- David Frankel ('The Devil Wears Prada', 'Marley & Me', 'Dear Diary')
- Writer:
- Allan Loeb
- Cast:
- Will SmithKate WinsletKeira KnightleyEdward NortonHelen MirrenMichael PeñaNaomie HarrisJacob Latimore
Reviews & comments
A complex lyrical essay on grief psychosis
Every now and then the movie commentariat gets it wrong. Bad movies earn bad reviews, but it is something else entirely when a movie that is not bad receives universal condemnation. Last year that honour went to Collateral Beauty (2016), the most misread movie of recent times. Ignoring the fact that its cast includes Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet...
Village Voice
pressYou'll ... struggle to accept that what you saw on that screen actually played in theaters, was funded and approved by distributors, took a month or so of the lives of those extraordinary actors.
The New York Times
pressThe five stages of grief sometimes seem applicable to movie reviewing, except that I usually skip denial, rarely get around to acceptance and generally just settle into anger, which is where I am with "Collateral Beauty."
The Guardian
pressAt the end of it, I screamed the way polar bears are supposed to when they get their tongues frozen to the ice.
Stuff
pressThis saccharine, manipulative, cynical, brain-dead and virtually inhuman enterprise should be shown down the ages as a terrible example of just how much can still go wrong...
New Zealand Herald
pressA movie which suggests five stages of grief requires a sixth, entitled "collective idiocy".
Los Angeles Times
pressThis movie doesn't rise to the level of so-bad-it's-good. But no less impressively, perhaps, it's just bad enough that you actually wish it were worse.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe finished movie plays ... concertedly like a Serious Acting Vehicle for Smith, who's the least interesting component in a madly over-qualified cast.
Village Voice
pressYou'll ... struggle to accept that what you saw on that screen actually played in theaters, was funded and approved by distributors, took a month or so of the lives of those extraordinary actors.
The New York Times
pressThe five stages of grief sometimes seem applicable to movie reviewing, except that I usually skip denial, rarely get around to acceptance and generally just settle into anger, which is where I am with "Collateral Beauty."
The Guardian
pressAt the end of it, I screamed the way polar bears are supposed to when they get their tongues frozen to the ice.
Stuff
pressThis saccharine, manipulative, cynical, brain-dead and virtually inhuman enterprise should be shown down the ages as a terrible example of just how much can still go wrong...
New Zealand Herald
pressA movie which suggests five stages of grief requires a sixth, entitled "collective idiocy".
Los Angeles Times
pressThis movie doesn't rise to the level of so-bad-it's-good. But no less impressively, perhaps, it's just bad enough that you actually wish it were worse.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe finished movie plays ... concertedly like a Serious Acting Vehicle for Smith, who's the least interesting component in a madly over-qualified cast.
A complex lyrical essay on grief psychosis
Every now and then the movie commentariat gets it wrong. Bad movies earn bad reviews, but it is something else entirely when a movie that is not bad receives universal condemnation. Last year that honour went to Collateral Beauty (2016), the most misread movie of recent times. Ignoring the fact that its cast includes Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet...
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