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In "Amsterdam," Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington play three American comrades who met in Europe during World War I. Merie Weismiller/20th Century Studios. By Manohla ...

The movie is a fiction with a nugget of fact attached, a dark news story from 1933 wrapped inside a screwball lark. Or maybe vice versa. Either way, talk of history abounds: being on the right ...

'Amsterdam' Review: Three Amigos Try to Save America in David O. Russell's Ungainly Period Dramedy Reviewed at AMC Century City, Los Angeles, Sept. 19, 2022. MPA Rating: R. Running time: 134 ...

Amsterdam. Simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished, frantic and meandering, "Amsterdam" is one big, star-studded, hot mess of a movie. Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Michael Shannon, Zoe Saldana, Alessandro Nivola and many more major names: How can you ...

Amsterdam Review. By Tara Bennett. Posted: Oct 6, 2022 2:00 pm. Amsterdam premieres exclusively in theaters Oct. 7. There's a very good movie simmering inside Amsterdam that might have ...

Bafta introduces children's and family film award for 2025, reduces jury interventions. ... 'Amsterdam': Review. By Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic 2022-09-28T02:00:00+01:00.

Published 5:57 AM PDT, October 7, 2022. The stars appear one after the other — a banquet of talent, a glut of inventiveness — and yet nothing clicks. Hollywood's most famous squirm in a slog. Welcome to "Amsterdam," writer and director David O. Russell's answer to the question: Can some of the top actors in the world manage to ...

Movie Reviews Amsterdam review: David O. Russell's muddled comedy is all stars and shenanigans Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and dozens more populate an odd shaggy-dog mystery.

Chicago Sun-Times. Oct 5, 2022. In the case of David O. Russell's jaw-droppingly terrible, aggressively tasteless, profoundly unfunny and interminably dull conspiracy thriller and would-be comedy "Amsterdam," the all-star ensemble has less chemistry than a high school freshman on the first day of class. Read More.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2023. While Amsterdam was undoubtedly enjoyable to film for its many costars, the merriment doesn't quite translate to the screen. The plethora of side ...

Amsterdam suffers from a surfeit of story detail without the vigour to whizz you through it. It has likable leads and the craft is on point, but the result, given all the talent involved, is a ...

Amsterdam walks a narrow tightrope line of being too much, and there are moments where knees bend and arms flail for balance, but it does stay upright and put on a show in the process. It has a ...

By David Rooney. September 27, 2022 7:00pm. From left: John David Washington, Margot Robbie and Christian Bale in 'Amsterdam' Courtesy of Merie Weismiller Wallace/20th Century Studios. David O ...

It has big, timely points to make about spiritual injury, the specter of war, longing for lost utopias, and the rise of fascism. By the time the picture starts to lock back into its story, however ...

The film is a creative and directorial miss that feels doomed from its tedious opening moments all the way to its emotionally hollow final frames. What could have been a messy but, at the very ...

Amsterdam. Goes For Wokeness Over Substance. David O. Russell's latest film is giving me flashbacks of that video of A-list celebrities singing "Imagine" to us over Zoom. America may have run ...

Don't be fooled by the glossy promotional campaign of Amsterdam.Sure, on paper this seems a dazzling pick perfect for fall, boasting big stars like Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David ...

The Hollywood Reporter David Rooney. David O. Russell's Amsterdam is a lot of movies inelegantly squidged into one — a zany screwball comedy, a crime thriller, an earnest salute to pacts of love and friendship, an antifascist history lesson with fictional flourishes. Those competing strands all have their merits, bolstered by entertaining ...

Image Via 20th Century Studios. For a film ostensibly about the power of kindness, David O. Russell 's Amsterdam sure is damn cruel to its audience. Running at a punishing two-plus hours with a ...

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Amsterdam is a 2022 period mystery comedy thriller film directed, written, and produced by David O. Russell and starring Christian Bale (who also produced), Margot Robbie, and John David Washington alongside an ensemble supporting cast including Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts ...

"Amsterdam" certainly doesn't suffer from a lack of ambition, and the star-studded cast merely adds to that sense of grandeur. Yet writer-director David O. Russell has assembled them in the ...