Entertainment
Comedy, Drama
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2015
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Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
113 min
Release date:
13 Nov 2015
Country:
US, CA
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$55,506
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
There's a chic emptiness to "Entertainment," undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Nov 2015
fresh:
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends.
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
19 Nov 2015
fresh:
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
19 Nov 2015
rotten:
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy.
– Tasha Robinson,
RogerEbert.com,
13 Nov 2015
fresh:
Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: an active, engaged experience.
– John Semley,
Globe and Mail,
13 Nov 2015