Stockholm

Movie Ranked #1360 | 2019 - Comedy, Crime, Drama
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
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Best two reviews:
1) The Hollywood Reporter - Stockholm, which gently massages actual events to serve as a fine vehicle for Noomi Rapace and Ethan Hawke, is far from the first movie to believably show a crime victim coming to sympathize with a criminal. But it's a funny and agile one. (Rating: 70) Read Full Review >
2) The Film Stage - As a comedy with a good-natured soul doing bad things to earn his surrogate brother freedom, Stockholm is a success. (Rating: 67) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
7) The A.V. Club - Hawke is no stranger to elevating subpar material with a committed performance, but his fidgety crook-with-a-heart-of-gold act is undercut by Budreau’s uncreative use of the limited setting (almost the whole thing takes place inside the bank) and unskillful handling of the broad tone. (Rating: 50) Read Full Review >
8) Variety - The opening title says “Based on an absurd but true story,” yet there’s nothing absurd about the facts. Improbable? Yes. Hapless and desperate? Most definitely. But the absurdity — the impulse to giggle — is mostly there in the eye of the writer-director, Robert Budreau, who collaborated with Hawke two years ago on the entrancing Chet Baker biopic “Born to Be Blue” but here comes off as a far less sure-handed filmmaker. (Rating: 50) Read Full Review >
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