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      The End of the Tour

      R Released Jul 31, 2015 1h 46m Drama List
      92% Tomatometer 161 Reviews 82% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings Writer and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviews author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for Rolling Stone magazine. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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      Brilliantly performed and smartly unconventional, The End of the Tour pays fitting tribute to a singular talent while offering profoundly poignant observations on the human condition.

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      Max Weiss Baltimore Magazine I can't speak to its veracity, but I loved Segel's work here, playing Wallace as someone who over-analyzed everything, to a compulsive, near paralyzing degree, while still managing to be the most interesting, literary guy in the room. Rated: 3.5/4 Jun 12, 2016 Full Review Jason Bailey Flavorwire By the time we're at the end of 'The End of the Tour,' it's arrived at something thoughtful and true about being a writer-and, even better, about being a real person. May 30, 2016 Full Review David Stratton The Australian Strong performances from the lead actors anchor the film, but the world depicted is rather too hermetic for anyone not immediately interested in the subject matter. Rated: 3/5 May 20, 2016 Full Review George Fenwick Stuff.co.nz The film is fascinatingly intellectual and brimming with humanity. Jul 26, 2021 Full Review Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Occasionally it feels like an excuse for introspective comments from the David Foster Wallace Book of Wisdom, but Segel finds the humanity in him, playing him as a man who lived inside his head even as his world expanded. Rated: 4/5 Feb 3, 2021 Full Review David Bax Battleship Pretension The End of the Tour movingly illustrates how deeply a human connection, no matter how momentary, can effect a person's life. Jan 14, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Alec B Despite the very good performances and the often engaging discussions I found the final product a bit too rose-tinted and sentimental in it's depiction of Wallace. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/13/23 Full Review Trenton K This movie changed my life. As a 17 year old kid who had little to no introduction to serious high-art literature, this movie was a gateway drug for me. I'm 21 now, but ever since I first watched it, I go back again every once and while to relive the profound experience of seeing the benefits of being well-read in the characters portrayed in this film. While some critics -- including a friend of Wallace -- claim the film falls short from portraying who Wallace was accurately. I believe this misses the point. To me the film is less about Wallace and more of a poignant showcase of what it means to be a deep, nuanced, and well-read thinker in our postmodern world concerned with vapid entertainment and addiction rather than the deeper fulfillment and satisfaction of digesting substantive thought and art. I've never been the same since I first watched this film. It continues to have a crucial impact on my life today. This film was crucial for my adolescence and maturity into a young man in todays world. It inspired me to read difficult books and start taking my understanding of the world more seriously. Said books were crucial to deepening my understanding of everything, but I was less aware I needed them before this movie guided me towards such a direction. This movie introduced me to D. F. W. as a figure and has thus inspired me to enter a world of art, theory, and philosophy that has made my life significantly more fulfilling through frameworks of deeper understanding. I'm grateful for this film as a gateway into a realm of culture and thinking I would be unfamiliar with if it weren't for it taking the format of an accessible movie that matched my interest in dull but instantly gratifying Netflix movies. This film is crucial for a world existing with an increasing amount of generations growing up on vapid and hyper-produced content with less and less guidance towards the importance of deep-thinking and contemplation amongst such a postmodern landscape. I believe this film's purpose, at least the purpose it ascribes for me, was to guide me out of this postmodern realm of vapidness towards a realm of deeper contemplation, understanding, philosophy, and imagination; a realm much more significant than the postmodern realm I was born in -- a realm I was doomed to grow up in without the guidance to operate its power successfully. I am now inspired to lead a future that does operate this power successfully. I believe this film was a crucial stepping stone towards becoming the adult I am today. I believe this film is important for anyone who needs to be introduced to serious literature and thinking, but hasn't the privilege to find it without this film existing in the accessible format necessary to take them there without it. I never had a family that guided towards this realm, and frankly, the educational institutions weren't concerned with inspiring me to get there either. Seemingly, the education system I grew up in as an American was more concerned with killing my spirit for learning rather than supporting it. This movie is one of my absolute favorites. I believe any literature or philosophy geek needs to watch this film at some point. Those who have yet to understand why they need serious literature and thinking in their life might need this film the most. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/22 Full Review crustina d This film is perfect. Superbly acted and written and filmed. James Ponsoldt's best film -- leaps and bounds better than anything he has yet made. Brilliantly nuanced, emotional and hilarious! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review the s I feel like David Foster Wallace would have hated this movie and that really says it all, dunnit? There's way too much awkwardness and neuroticism put on display here between the 2 characters…to the point of it moving behind a story of a character study into a display of caricatures. And we don't really need the excessive awkwardness…it feels implied but it's exaggerated. Ultimately it feels like a movie that just didn't need to be made. Wallace was brilliant in hos observations of the human condition and this movie tries to dissect something that is best left unexplored. College students who haven't read Infinite Jest will enjoy it as a vignette of early-aughts pop culture but it doesn't really fill any gaps or provide any clarity to an author who seemed to enjoy muddying the waters. And sometimes the myths are more interesting than the truth. But even though depression and genius may go hand in hand sometimes, it doesn't need to be peeled back for the layers to all be examined. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review robert r Can confirm that even those who are generally unfamiliar with the life and times of David Foster Wallace can find enjoyment in James Ponsoldt's "The End Of The Tour," as my knowledge of the man and his works were limited at best before watching this. From any angle, this is a contemplative, authentic and honest look at the burden of brilliance, the drawbacks of envying others and the layers of depth that we all contain within us. It's hard to even say that anything really "happens" in this movie and yet I couldn't help but be enraptured with seeing these two guys talking, trying to figure each other out. You have to love the natural chemistry between the two lead performers and the acting overall. Jason Segel is the obvious standout, venturing out of the usual comedic trappings to play one of the more fascinating individuals to pop up in modern literature. Definitely a great watch, overall. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Kay W I wish it had been more ambitious. But I enjoyed it and plan to watch it again. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/03/21 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Writer and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviews author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for Rolling Stone magazine.
      Director
      James Ponsoldt
      Producer
      David Kanter, Matt DeRoss, James Dahl, Mark C. Manuel, Ted O'Neal
      Screenwriter
      Donald Margulies
      Distributor
      A24
      Production Co
      Anonymous Content
      Rating
      R (Some Sexual References|Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jul 31, 2015, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 15, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $3.0M
      Runtime
      1h 46m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital
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