Rebel in the Rye

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2017
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106 mins
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Nicholas Hault leads this biopic on one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, J.D. Salinger. Co-stars Kevin Spacey... More

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Rebel in the Rye | Ratings & Reviews

"Too phony to love."

IndieWireIndieWire

"This thanklessly watchable film... like any cliched writing, deserves rejection."

Village VoiceVillage Voice

"A watchable but shallow take on creativity..."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"(A) superficial cliche factory..."

A.V. ClubA.V. Club

"While Rebel in the Rye isn’t quite as bad as its pile-of-bricks-clunky title suggests, it’s both simple- and literal-minded..."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"(A) polished but cliche-festooned biopic..."

Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly

"The journey of J.D. Salinger from young wiseacre to world-celebrated author and notorious recluse is absorbingly traced..."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"A feature-length biopic that appears to be comprised of half-realised highlights from a television miniseries."

RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.com

"(Rebel in the Rye) isn’t terrible; it’s just one of those period films that never catches a spark..."

Seattle TimesSeattle Times

"You realise the director has bought into the myth along with everyone else, to the point where he thinks the life itself is all the story you need. That's not art, that's worship, and it's what sent J.D. Salinger heading for the hills in the first place."

Boston GlobeBoston Globe

"As a movie, this Rebel is, as it turns out, terribly by the book."

The Washington PostThe Washington Post

"Fatally, the movie fails to convey the sympathy and imagination of Salinger's prose - instead characters simply state over and over again how brilliant he is."

Chicago ReaderChicago Reader

"The warmest possible portrait of a chilly personality..."

San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle

"A solid, well-acted and basically standard biopic."

Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-Times

"The minutiae of the film's scenes are undermined by a screenplay with details so sparse."

PastePaste

"Yet another cliche-ridden story of the tortured male genius."

South China Morning PostSouth China Morning Post

"The decision to hustle in montage-style fashion through Salinger’s life reduces the man’s development to facile cause-and-effect relationships."

Slant MagazineSlant Magazine

"Spacey has unsurprisingly been scrubbed from its cover art. The same treatment should have been extended to the film itself."

IndependentIndependent

"Diverting, mildly informative and - to borrow Caulfield's adjective of choice - somewhat phony, heavy as it is on tortured-writer clichés and contrived art-imitates-life parallels."

VarietyVariety

"Strong ... draws connections between life and art in ways many others have, but finds it hard to conjure his subject's passion for writing."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"Instead of demythologising Salinger, Rebel in the Rye plays like a fan film rather than an honest examination of a complex figure."

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Rebel in the Rye | Details

Rating
M, Mature themes, violence and coarse language
Runtime
106
Genre
Drama, True Story & Biography
Country of origin
USA

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