L.A. - based Roadside once again saw half of its
films (including Chilean drama Gloria and
festival hit Dear White People) earn positive
reviews, but its Metascore average (and box office grosses)
fell a bit compared to 2013.
Some of these launched at prestige
fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad
reviews or audience reaction, or both.
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Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early
fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave
reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual
film festival hyperbole.