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The Party
Directed by
Sally Potter
R
2017
71m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.6
82%
62%
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Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
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Cast of The Party
Patricia Clarkson
April
Cherry Jones
Martha
Kristin Scott Thomas
Janet
Bruno Ganz
Godfried
Timothy Spall
Bill
Emily Mortimer
Jinny
Cillian Murphy
Tom
Sally Potter
Director / Writer
Christopher Sheppard
Producer
Kurban Kassam
Producer
The Party Ratings & Reviews
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
This would have worked better as a play, probably, because the setting is so sparse, the performances so compact, and the dialogue so forceful.
Houston Chronicle
Cary Darling
There are moments, mostly in the latter half, when the ensemble works well together and Thomas, especially, gets to shine as her world falls apart. But these elements aren't enough to justify attending this "Party."
Detroit News
Adam Graham
With a cast like this, "The Party" should have been a delicious romp. Instead, it's over before it gets started.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's worth attending this party if only for Scott Thomas, who's never less than electric. Somebody needs to put Janet and her quivering energy at the center of a superhero movie; I'd watch.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
You'll want to stay on your toes, but this Party invite is not one you'll want to decline.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The Party is a brisk, black-and-white, worst-possible-case dinner party scenario overflowing with good actors and bad vibes. It resembles a minor-league distillation of Edward Albee and Woody Allen, but at least there are those performers to look at
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Like a soap bubble, writer-director Sally Potter's arch sendup of the English intelligentsia (plus the odd coked-up banker) is brief, diverting, and laden with impending doom from its very first moments.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
[Patricia Clarkson] has seldom been in a vehicle so witty and cerebral as Sally Potter's drawing-room comedy.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Potter has assembled all the makings of an acid-bath of a social satire but somehow avoids the killing blow.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Shot in a glossy, appealing black-and-white and filmed in a single location, The Party generates a pressure cooker atmosphere.
Washington Post
Alan Zilberman
Potter's cast never overstays its welcome, giving us plenty to think - and talk - about, and in a scant 71 minutes.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Potter's movie may be too small to leave a substantial legacy. But you can't take your eyes off it as ace actors, led by a deliciously acerbic Patricia Clarkson, serve up hilarious verbal fireworks that knock the wind out of you.
Riot Material
Kristy Puchko
As the credits rolled, I felt cheated, robbed of a climax that suited this sophisticated and deliciously dark comedy.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
It's easier to respect a filmmaker's sense of hopelessness when it's mixed with this much affection.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
A beautifully conceived and executed chamber comedy/drama with tragedy at its core.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Janet and her bickering guests come across as cartoon bourgeois, thinly-drawn and wooden in their line delivery like dummies of a ventriloquist bent on caricaturing a privileged elite ...
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Demonstrates what can happen when a filmmaker takes on a well-worn cinematic subgenre - the dinner party gone horribly wrong - and strips it down to its blistering bare-bones essence.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Savagely funny.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A 71-minute black-and-white movie that mostly comes off like a futile filmmaking exercise in how to move bodies inside a (largely) confined space.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Potter's screenplay keeps throwing new twists at her characters throughout the film, each more pointed and darkly comedic than the last.
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