Release dates
January 2, 2018
90 months agoVOD / DVD / Blu-ray
Released
Rebel in the Rye release date
The movie Rebel in the Rye is already released on Cinema, VOD, DVD and Blu-ray in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 15 reviews, Rebel in the Rye gets an average review score of 48
There is a curiosity for Salinger, even to this day, but the film tackles parts of his life that were already well-known. There seems to be something missing; his life was an enigmatic puzzle and Strong hasn’t found all the pieces. It doesn’t help that his visual style is flat and the narrative is conventional enough.
2776d ago
J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye is tortured-genius claptrap.
2776d ago
Nicholas Hoult plays the author in a watchable but shallow take on creativity and the process of writing a classic.
2776d ago
Clearly, this was not ideal material for Strong’s feature directorial debut, but depending on your aesthetic, he deserves some credit for recruiting a crew that makes the final product look more slick and expensive than most independent productions. And that’s probably a bonus when you’re telling a Cliff Notes version of a historical figure’s unique life.
2776d ago
Score one for the phonies: Rebel In The Rye is an embarrassing J.D. Salinger biopic.
2776d ago
Nicholas Hoult plays J.D. Salinger as he prepares to write 'Catcher in the Rye' in Danny Strong's biopic.
2776d ago
There may be a receptive audience for Danny Strong's watchable biopic of J.D. Salinger, but the author himself most certainly wouldn't be in it.
2776d ago
Hoult is such a strong actor that he capably commands the screen and holds attention, even when "Rebel in the Rye" is a screenplay desperately in need of some focus.
2776d ago
Danny Strong’s “Rebel in the Rye” attempts to correct that by placing Salinger at the center of his own biopic, while utilizing Kenneth Slawenski’s 2010 biography, J.D. Salinger: A Life, as its chief source material.
2776d ago
While Rebel in the Rye isn’t quite as bad as its pile-of-bricks-clunky title suggests, it’s both simple- and literal-minded, less concerned with Salinger’s consciousness or sensibility than with his ostensible ontological status as a Tortured Creative Giant.
2776d ago
This thanklessly watchable film, recut since its mixed Sundance premiere, may not warrant Holden Caulfield’s trademark judgment of phoniness — but, like any clichéd writing, deserves rejection.
2776d ago
Writer-director Danny Strong’s feature debut embodies the very phoniness that the author — and his signature character, Holden Caulfield — railed against.
2776d ago
Danny Strong’s film suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches J.D. Salinger and his process of any mystery.
2776d ago
The script is credited to first-time director Danny Strong and Kenneth Slawenski, author of 2010’s J.D. Salinger: A Life. Holden and Jerry are pretty much intertwined throughout, although the scope broadens here and there to make mention of some of Salinger’s other notable works. (The dude was such a Rebel he insisted on making “bananafish” one word.)
2776d ago
Danny Strong’s portrait of the reclusive author, played by a miscast Nicholas Hoult, is a superficial mishmash of biopic tropes.
2776d ago