Beatriz at Dinner

Actress gives a career-best performance as masseuse who takes on a Trumpian guest in this cutting class-conscious drama.

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The story fully kicks in when Beatriz, who makes house calls, ends up getting stuck in a wealthy client’s circular driveway when her clunky Volkswagen breaks down.

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A spiritual finale that offers both pessimism for our world’s current situation and potential optimism for our lead doesn’t exactly work, but as a film capturing increasing condescension until a breaking point is reached, Beatriz at Dinner impresses with an impassioned performance by Hayek.

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This is neither a simple satire of privilege nor a mock-provocative comedy of diversity and its discontents. It’s about a clash of values, about unresolvable contradictions. Or to put it another way, about good and evil.

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In the first dramatic comedy for the Age of Trump, Salma Hayek is luminous as a holistic healer who clashes, at a dinner party from hell, with a voracious real-estate tycoon.

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Beatriz, a person committed to doing good in the world, can be obtuse in reading social cues and fatiguingly sanctimonious, her wearisome traits finely calibrated by Hayek.

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Ken Loach’s indictment of modern England, a triumph at Cannes, and Miguel Arteta’s film about Californian mores, starring Salma Hayek and John Lithgow.

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The story's aims are noble, but it works too hard at scoring its points to succeed as either entertainment or lacerating social commentary. The picture needed to bite harder and deeper.

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Salma Hayek stars as a health worker compelled to break bread with John Lithgow's Trumpian capitalist in the latest feature from director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White.

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Despite its gestures toward nuance, the very broadness of the dichotomies in the film prove to be its undoing.

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This immigrant vs. real-estate mogul comedy couldn’t be timelier, but the sparks never fly.

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