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Pretenders (2018)

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Synopsis

A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.

Cast

  • James Franco
  • Juno Temple
  • Jane Levy
  • Brian Cox
  • Dennis Quaid
  • Shameik Moore
  • Mustafa Shakir
  • Jack Kilmer
  • Danielle Burgess
  • Antoni Porowski

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Metacritic

20
Oct 3, 2019

Not only does the film offer a superficial reading of all the famous movies that inspired it, but there’s also an incredibly bro-ish sentiment to the whole thing, as if Franco and Boone binge-watched half the Criterion Collection while slamming down brewskies on the couch.

Metacritic review by Jordan Mintzer
Jordan Mintzer
The Hollywood Reporter
10
Oct 3, 2019

James Franco’s Pretenders begs the question: is this a film about bohemian artists or a parody of a film about bohemian artists? Because if we’re supposed to take this laughably trite and sexist claptrap seriously, one has to laugh.

Metacritic review by Katie Walsh
Katie Walsh
Los Angeles Times
10
Oct 3, 2019

As nostalgic twaddle goes, “Me and Phil and the New Wave Girl” (I mean Pretenders) initially feels like an innocuous treatment of the joys and sorrows of cinephilia and young love. The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies. Soon, though, it descends into several discrete modes of misogyny.

Metacritic review by Glenn Kenny
Glenn Kenny
The New York Times