Pain Hustlers

"Plenty entertaining, but not particularly thoughtful."

"A garish and, yes, mostly painful Big Pharma satire."

"[Emily Blunt] makes the film watchable, but is the only reason to watch."

"Emily Blunt rises above clunky pharma drama."

"The wild ride of it all gets too bumpy for its own good."

"Emily Blunt is wickedly effective."

"A conflicted yet entertaining dramedy."

"Painful Big Pharma drama."

"Plods along through an entirely rote interpretation of the opioid crisis."

"Bolstered by committed performances."

"Turns the opioid crisis into a scammer story, not a criminal one."

"Emily Blunt dazzles, but the rest of this ripped-from-the-headlines dramedy misses the mark."

"Fails to seduce or repel."

"Glib and low-rent."

"Never offers quite enough sex, quite enough excess, quite enough of capitalism’s depravity."

"Thanks largely to Blunt’s performance, Pain Hustlers manages to be lively and moving."

"A well-acted and initially gripping story that loses momentum about halfway through."

"The excitement that the film tries to generate for its main characters is disturbingly glib."

"There is no guts to Pain Hustlers’ try-hard gonzo-ness."

"The lighthearted treatment of the opioid crisis just doesn’t work in Pain Hustlers."

"Feels like a retreading of the same ground covered in other recent works."