The Dinner
Two sets of wealthy parents meet for dinner to decide what to do about a crime their sons have committed.
29 December 1998, New York City, New York, USA
8 August 1977, Rocky River, Ohio, USA
3 May 1982, London, England, UK
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
5 February 1964, New York City, New York, USA
14 October 1965, Middleton, Manchester, England, UK
11 July 1952, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 23, 2017
In this joyless context the professionalism feels like slow suffocation.
May 20, 2017
This adaptation is clouded by a menu with too many choices.
May 13, 2017
Ominously undercooked and unbalanced, this epicurean feast culminates in an infuriatingly enigmatic conclusion.
May 26, 2017
Guaranteed to leave you hungry for good food and a better movie.
May 11, 2017
Although Moverman's cinematic style can be physically uncomfortable to experience, it's impossible to turn away from the quartet of incredible performances.
May 30, 2017
The Dinner is a difficult film to watch, but it is worth seeing for Coogan's revelatory performance alone.
May 05, 2017
Potential game-changing touch: this time, it's the politician and not his middle-class brother who is in favor of exposing the truth.
May 15, 2017
Despite the skill of the cast, you spend much of the film trying to decide which of its characters most deserves to choke on an appetizer.
May 24, 2017
You're invited to 'The Dinner' for a disturbing, thought-provoking two hours.
May 12, 2017
The Dinner is two hours of unrelenting nastiness, steeped in the trappings of extreme wealth and the toxic privilege it affords.
May 05, 2017
Coogan's dramatic performance is unmatched: raw, intense, satiric, self-immolating. There is not a moment when he is not being frighteningly honest, searching out the mortifying nooks and crannies of his often petty character and exposing them.
May 26, 2017
As focus lurches distractingly from the heated dinner-table debate to a zigzagging network of flashbacks, momentum fatally stalls, while the illustrious ensemble of actors at the film's center never quite gets cooking.
