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Bad Times at the El Royale
At the hotel on the California-Nevada border, seven strangers meet: a cleric, a soul singer, a street vendor, two sisters, the director and the mysterious Billy Lee - on a fateful night. Each of them has a mysterious secret and a painful past. The hotel turns into a battle between these seven under mysterious circumstances and bad things.
28 February 1980, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
10 March 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
15 June 1982, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
13 January 1938, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7 May 1984, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
4 February 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 November 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
20 March 1989, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
October 14, 2018
In its better moments, this studio oddity is a tense thriller, at its worst, draggy and self-indulgent.
October 12, 2018
An unfortunately apt demonstration of what can befall a clever filmmaker who gets too clever.
October 12, 2018
Careful framing, mysterious characters, slow builds, violent surprises, and a dynamite parade of very nearly on-the-nose songs from the mid- to late-1960s
October 14, 2018
Somewhere along the line... Goddard loses his own plot and succumbs to sentiment.
October 15, 2018
Overlong and disappointing depraved retro.
October 15, 2018
An imperfect movie, and one impossible to pigeonhole, but it offers more delights than many bigger films.
October 12, 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale starts with a lot of promise and a full head of steam; even half-way through I was engaged. But the movie eventually careens off the track.
October 14, 2018
an engrossing thriller punctuated with gunshot blasts and tidy conundrums about both right and wrong and about innocence and guilt.
October 12, 2018
Taking turns in the spotlight, everyone in the cast is outstanding.
October 12, 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale isn't an event. But I was never too bored.
October 15, 2018
This Irwin-Allen-sized B-movie mostly works thanks to Goddard's knack for nesting-doll-style narrative compartmentalization and his talent for bringing out the best in his uniformly strong ensemble cast...
October 15, 2018
Though imperfect, is saved by its magnificent first two-thirds, its A-list cast that stuns and shares the spotlight in rounds, its infectious selection of songs sung to divine perfection.