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- Oren Moverman ’s “The Dinner” is an incredibly frustrating movie, almost purposefully so. It is a film about people who say things like “We’re gonna talk tonight … put it all on the table,” and then never do. They’re constantly avoiding not just the truth but basic human interaction.
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May 5, 2017 · Oren Moverman ’s “The Dinner” is an incredibly frustrating movie, almost purposefully so. It is a film about people who say things like “We’re gonna talk tonight … put it all on the table,” and then never do. They’re constantly avoiding not just the truth but basic human interaction.
As two couples dine at an upscale restaurant, their polite discourse disguises the fact that they are struggling with weighty family issues. Watch The Dinner with a subscription on Hulu, rent on...
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May 5, 2017 · That’s the question faced by Richard Gere’s character in Oren Moverman’s The Dinner, in which Gere, Rebecca Hall, Steve Coogan, and Laura Linney play two couples whose children took part in an...
- Stacey Wilson Hunt
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May 4, 2017 · Stan’s determination is cheering, especially when we learn that one of his dinner guests — his brother, Paul (Steve Coogan) — is resolutely incapable of listening to any voice but his own.
- Oren Moverman
May 2, 2017 · The Dinner is an entirely unpleasant film about a group of appalling people. The premise and subject matter is at first intriguing, then precipitously breaks down into a jumbled mess....
- Film Critic & Entertainment Reporter
Moverman's dinner is certainly barbed, and often venomous, but in spending two solid hours with such unlikeable company is an ordeal in itself, even one as handsomely crafted and executed as this.
The Dinner is an 2017 American drama film directed and written by Oren Moverman, and based on the Dutch novel of the same name by Herman Koch. It is the third film adaptation of the novel, following the 2013 original Dutch version Het Diner by Menno Meyjes and the 2014 Italian film I nostri ragazzi by Ivano De Matteo.
