Village Voice
You'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.
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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.
2016Rating: M, Offensive language96 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- David Frankel ('The Devil Wears Prada', 'Marley & Me', 'Dear Diary')
- Writer:
- Allan Loeb
- Cast:
- Will SmithKate WinsletKeira KnightleyEdward NortonHelen MirrenMichael PeñaNaomie HarrisJacob Latimore
Collateral Beauty / Reviews
The New York Times
The 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."
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The Guardian
At the end of it, I screamed the way polar bears are supposed to when they get their tongues frozen to the ice.
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Stuff
This 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...
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New Zealand Herald
A movie which suggests five stages of grief requires a sixth, entitled "collective idiocy".
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Los Angeles Times
This 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.
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Hollywood Reporter
The finished movie plays ... concertedly like a Serious Acting Vehicle for Smith, who's the least interesting component in a madly over-qualified cast.
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