Entertainment
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
2 August 1960, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
5 March 1936, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 September 1983, Houston, Texas, USA
November 13, 1988 in Torrance, California, USA
7 March 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1997, USA
24 June 1982, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
January 06, 2016
It's difficult to give Alverson and his star too much credit for depth, insight or having a point. Because I'm not certain they have one.
January 05, 2016
This is one of those in-your-face, angry, confrontational movies. It wasn't just a chore to sit through, it was more like a homework assignment given to you by a teacher who hates your guts.
December 24, 2015
A weird road flick about a weirdo stand-up comic with a weird repertoire.
March 02, 2016
Entertainment is a fully realised and extremely accomplished translation of Gregg Turkington's Neil Hamburger character to the big screen.
November 13, 2015
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy.
December 08, 2016
Though often slowly paced, Entertainment reveals itself as a remarkably dense, if not difficult film that rewards patience and a willingness to step into the anti-social mind.
November 13, 2015
Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: an active, engaged experience.
November 19, 2015
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends.
March 02, 2016
Alverson continues to zero in on the most brutal tendencies of contemporary comedy.
November 19, 2015
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California.
November 13, 2015
Weirdly compelling if student-y and unfocused ...
November 19, 2015
There's a chic emptiness to "Entertainment," undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
