En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert.
November 13, 1988 in Torrance, California, USA
7 March 1952, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 October 1966, Rangoon, Burma
11 November 1996, Elkhart, Texas, USA
24 June 1982, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
20 September 1983, Houston, Texas, USA
5 November 1997, USA
25 November 1967, Darwin, Australia
December 08, 2016
Though often slowly paced, Entertainment reveals itself as a remarkably dense, if not difficult film that rewards patience and a willingness to step into the anti-social mind.
November 19, 2015
A daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California.
November 13, 2015
The Comedian is an ugly man with an ugly soul, and an ugly sense of comedy that at one point literally includes making fart noises for 90 full seconds as he pretends to gun down his silent audience with a soccer trophy.
November 19, 2015
There's a chic emptiness to "Entertainment," undoubtedly, and anti-comedy constructs that may rub the wrong way, but there's also a spiky intelligence at work too, one that engages through the artifice of disengagement and the illusion of "performance."
November 13, 2015
Like Hamburger's meta-hacky comedy routine, the film confronts and challenges in order to produce something increasingly rare in American cinema: an active, engaged experience.
January 06, 2016
It's difficult to give Alverson and his star too much credit for depth, insight or having a point. Because I'm not certain they have one.
January 05, 2016
This is one of those in-your-face, angry, confrontational movies. It wasn't just a chore to sit through, it was more like a homework assignment given to you by a teacher who hates your guts.
March 02, 2016
Alverson continues to zero in on the most brutal tendencies of contemporary comedy.
March 02, 2016
Entertainment is a fully realised and extremely accomplished translation of Gregg Turkington's Neil Hamburger character to the big screen.
December 24, 2015
A weird road flick about a weirdo stand-up comic with a weird repertoire.
November 19, 2015
It is not fun, but its confrontational style yields dividends.
November 13, 2015
Weirdly compelling if student-y and unfocused ...
