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American Star

R Released Jan 26 1h 47m Mystery & Thriller List
79% Tomatometer 33 Reviews 48% Audience Score 50+ Ratings
An assassin (Ian McShane) on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck. Read More Read Less
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Thanks in large part to the ever-watchable Ian McShane, American Star entertains as a slow-burning albeit somewhat standard thriller.

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Leslie Felperin Guardian Although the script is a bit formulaic and fairly predictable, the treat here is seeing McShane do what he does best, which is to project a lively mind ticking away under the placid surface of a snake-like visage. Rated: 3/5 Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Rex Reed Observer Movies about professional assassins have an obligation to be juicier and more consistently fascinating than this. Rated: 1/4 Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Matt Zoller Seitz RogerEbert.com This is an unusually intelligent and purposeful movie that doesn't say much but is full of feeling. Rated: 3/4 Jan 26, 2024 Full Review Seb Jenkins Loud and Clear Reviews An action thriller, American Star is not. [...] What Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (Apollo 18, The Hollow Point) has created is a far more subtle and introspective look into the toll violence and isolation can take on the human mind. Rated: 4/5 Aug 7, 2024 Full Review Calum Baker Radio Times Director Gonzalo López-Gallego keeps the rest of his film compelling by smartly building every scene around McShane's craggy charisma and dry charm, all set against a nicely shot succession of beautiful Canarian locations. Rated: 3/5 Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Kevin Wight The Wee Review Almost serene hitman drama is an incredible vessel for a vintage Ian McShane performance. Rich in texture and melancholy , but deliberately sparse in rollicking gun play Rated: 4 Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Bruce H I love everything this guy is in but.....This was soooo slow and dull. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/04/24 Full Review Zak S Woeful. Slow and boring. Literally nothing interesting happens until the last 10 mins. Total waste of time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/29/24 Full Review Audience Member Ian McShane at his best, a somewhat methodical film but all the same extremely enjoyable and easy to watch. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/26/24 Full Review Scott R I didn't want to like this film as much as I did. The wide angle, dizzying, lens distortion did nothing for the cinematic appeal. However, the character development, the location, the world building with the ship wreck ... it all just pulled together in the end. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/10/24 Full Review beverly s Can’t get back that 1hr 47 minutes. Horrible movie. Why did they even make it? What were they trying to tell us? No story line. No character development. Awful. Please heed my warning. Nothing at all compelling. Worse movie I have seen this decade Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 06/07/24 Full Review Preston M While Ian McShane gives it his all, the film is boring, uneventful, and just too slow. There wasn't much substance in the movie to keep it fresh and enjoyable. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An assassin (Ian McShane) on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck.
Director
Gonzalo López-Gallego
Producer
Michael Elliott, Ian McShane
Screenwriter
Nacho Faerna
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
EMU Films
Rating
R (Language|Some Bloody Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 26, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA)
$9.4K
Runtime
1h 47m
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