Stillwater

M
2021
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139 mins
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The writer-director of Best Picture Oscar-winner Spotlight helms this crime-drama centred on an Oklahoma oil-rig roughneck who travels to France in... More

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Stillwater | Ratings & Reviews

"It's a testament to (Damon's) tightly coiled performance that Bill comes off as nuanced and sympathetic as he does..."

Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly

"(Stillwater would) be more openly ridiculous, feel far more manipulative, if not for Damon's performance... (His) magic is in making a certain plainness, a near-anonymity, defiantly charismatic."

Rolling StoneRolling Stone

"The quality of the acting makes it easy to overlook how increasingly leaden Stillwater becomes - but not easy enough."

Boston GlobeBoston Globe

"Stillwater should be a deep investigation into a moral quandary, but it just ends up being shallow and irresponsible."

SalonSalon

"Matt Damon plays the ultimate ham-fisted American in France, doing such a good job of it that he helps disguise the flaws of this sometimes compelling but often frustrating movie."

Time MagazineTime Magazine

"Ultimately, the cacophony of all these plot lines converging and the weight of the messaging being conveyed is almost too much to bear."

RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.com

"An enthralling, exasperating, and, above all else, ambitious affair that doesn't soften or demand sympathy for its difficult main character but does insist on according him his full humanity."

VultureVulture

"Overly long but thoughtful..."

Associated PressAssociated Press

"Bad things happen and it’s somebody’s fault, but it’s all so very vague."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"Stillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas."

Slant MagazineSlant Magazine

"Stillwater is wonderfully compelling before becoming completely baffling."

The Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail

"A hokey and hectoring saga that evinces little respect or affection for its characters."

PastePaste

"It's possible to... admire the obvious intelligence and care that have been brought to bear on Stillwater - without fully buying the trail of contrivances and compromises it leaves in its wake."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"An ideal fusion of a Hollywood-style overall narrative with the detailed, lived-in emotional truth of a first-rate European effort."

San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco Chronicle

"Matt Damon gives a solid performance... But (the) story is clunky, old-fashioned and predictable when it’s not implausible."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

"Stillwater mashes up quest-for-justice, father-daughter dramatics, fortysomething romance and mid-life introspection for a refreshingly adult drama."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

"It’s rather remarkable that a big Hollywood studio is releasing this difficult, curious film. I hope people give its heady mix of melodrama and political allusion a chance."

Vanity FairVanity Fair

"It’s a disappointing, uneven and overlong film, but there’s something oddly compelling about how messy the end result is."

Little White LiesLittle White Lies

"Bidegain knows (that) literal-mindedness gets boring, and so he and Debré come at each scene sideways: They let certain things happen off screen, focusing instead on seemingly mundane snapshots that reveal far more about character."

VarietyVariety

"A strained but strangely affecting turducken of a movie that bakes a dad-on-a-mission thriller together with a heartwarming fish-out-of-water story and then a brutal crime drama..."

IndieWireIndieWire

Stillwater | Details

Rating
M, Mature themes, violence and coarse language
Runtime
139
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
USA

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