Cherry

"Cherry comments on itself compulsively, and the results are mixed."

"Tom Holland's kinetic performance is impressive, but it's in the service of an uneven film that too self-consciously works at mirroring the form of a novel."

"The only reality Cherry reflects with numbing insistence is that of co-directors getting high on their own high style."

"Eventually Cherry breaks free enough of its influences to present a credible, at times harrowing, American addiction tragedy."

"Cherry has the glossy inauthenticity of a bad Tony Scott movie."

""Cherry" has no way of getting you to care about someone who hardly seems to care about himself."

"It's sporadic and strange, answering every call for substance with style."

"Yet it's been made with all the restraint and nuance you'd expect from-in the immortally narrated words of Ron Howard-a rigidly formulaic popcorn movie."

"Anthony and Joe Russo's film can never quite escape the essential hollowness of Cherry as a character."

"The title character's toxic behaviour leaves a sour aftertaste."

"A long, loud trip through familiar material which only fitfully delivers its rewards."

"For all the frenzied action of the final scenes though, there's an airless, overwrought sense of diminishing returns..."

"High marks for style and proficiency, but you don't have to be Nostradamus to know exactly where it's going every step of the way."

"Tom Holland breaks away from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a career defining performance."

"There's much to chew on in Cherry, and not all of it works."

"It's fascinating, as it often is, to watch populist filmmakers go for prestige glory - but that curiosity only carries us so far into Cherry's 141-minute run."