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[It's] supposed to be scathing, but the pleasure it affords is like what you get from watching the Oscars: celebrity spotting and in-jokes.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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The Player
Overview
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Director and cast
- Robert Altman Director
- Tim Robbins as Griffin Mill
- Greta Scacchi as June Gudmundsdottir
- Fred Ward as Walter Stuckel
- Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Avery
- Peter Gallagher as Larry Levy
- Brion James as Joel Levison
- Cynthia Stevenson as Bonnie Sherow
- Vincent D'Onofrio as David Kahane
- Dean Stockwell as Andy Civella
- Richard E. Grant as Tom Oakley
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mercilessly satiric yet good-natured, this enormously entertaining slam dunk quite possibly is the most resonant Hollywood saga since the days of Sunset Blvd. and The Bad and the Beautiful.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A movie about today's Hollywood -- hilarious and heartless in about equal measure, and often at the same time.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Mr. Altman's most subversive message here is not that it's possible to get away with murder in Hollywood, but that the most grievous sin, in Hollywood terms anyway, is to make a film that flops.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
[Altman] sticks it to every target, himself and us included, with a wicked zest that hurts only when you laugh.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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