Entourage 2015

Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com: These guys learn nothing, they don't change, they have no arc and they are never truly challenged. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: It lacks the will, mandate, and talent even to attempt filmed entertainment. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Put it this way: Gary Busey is in the movie. You'll forget it faster than he does. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: At no point does anyone involved with the film ever take this too seriously, and as long as one takes it in the same spirit, it's perfectly enjoyable. Read more

A.A. Dowd, AV Club: Like its pay-cable inspiration, Entourage remains stubbornly, defiantly low-stakes. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The big-screen version of Entourage is constructed like the series, another chapter in a sequel-ready story. If you wanted something more, you won't get it. But you will get this, and if it does well, likely more of it. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: The film is stuck in the inconsequential rut of the series. The characters are static, and the comedy is situational rather than dramatic. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: After a while, you expect a tale of the movie business to tell you something about the movies as well as the business, but Ellin and company have never had anything to say about that. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Devoted fans of the HBO series (2004-2011) will find it passably engaging, and newcomers will likely stare at the inside-Hollywood tropes and panic attacks the way Nipper the RCA dog stared at the Victrola. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This slick doodle of a movie is nothing so much as an advertisement for itself. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: You may not have missed them, but Vinnie, E, Turtle and Drama are back, as empty and self-centered as ever, in the aimless, vapid Entourage movie. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: The film's twitchy ADHD pacing hardly matters since we're in such good company. Read more

Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter: From its look to its episodic rhythm, the movie plays like a compressed Season 9 - a season that has its moments but wouldn't rank among the show's finest. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The movie has none of the fizz of the earliest of the series' eight seasons, and watching it summons that vague blank familiarity of discovering a show you used to watch is unexpectedly still on the air. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: For a show that was all about seizing your moment, it may have missed its own. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Entourage plays like a solid, if slightly too long, episode. But even given the bloat, the cast's easy camaraderie and a "play it as it lays" atmosphere wins you over. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: You could accuse it of glamorizing the shallow hedonism it depicts, but that charge would only stick if the movie had any genuine flair, romance or imagination. Read more

Sandy Cohen, Associated Press: All the familiar characters are there, along with ostentatious mansions, convertible Ferraris, Los Angeles landmarks and those topless women. It's a celebration of idealized consumption, presented without criticism. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Let sleeping bros lie. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There are some amusing moments but, like the TV series, Entourage is more interested in getting chuckles than guffaws. Maybe we should be thankful - at least the comedy isn't embarrassingly over-the-top. Read more

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: It's like catching up with an old friend and remembering why you don't hang out with him anymore: He's stuck in a rut and he has nothing new to say. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Was there a crying need for a film version of Entourage? Hardly. But the movie is still a tribute to Piven's iconic performance as Ari Gold, a devil you can love. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Did this overstuffed quality of "Entourage," its KFC Double Down too-much-is-not-enough-ness, ultimately work on me? Absolutely not. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: It's merely a continuation and not an expansion of what has gone before. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Four years after its eight seasons as an HBO series, "Entourage" is back as a feature film, and the first thing that needs to be said is that you don't have to know the show to enjoy the movie. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: On that vicarious-pleasure level, the movie version delivers. Yet for anyone with a sense of irony or social justice, it's also frustratingly soft around the edges. Read more

David Sims, The Atlantic: All a big-screen version does is help magnify how ironically un-cinematic the whole thing is. Read more

John Semley, Globe and Mail: These characters represent the most repellant cliches of male friendship, where guys can only relate to each other through a discourse of casual misogyny and female conquest. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: To Ellin's credit, Entourage looks good and has liberal amounts of flash. But it is a fly trapped in amber, celebrating excess and male privilege in a sexist way that feels very old and decidedly out of step with the 2015 world. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Piven's Ari is so over-the-top in his narcissism and megalomania that he's fun to watch, but the other lead characters are the kind of bros who should be having drinks thrown in their faces on a regular basis. Read more

David Ehrlich, Time Out: In 2015, however, bros only come before hos alphabetically, and what once felt like an innocent tale of wish fulfillment now plays like the masturbatory fantasy of a men's-rights activist. Read more

Lara Zarum, Village Voice: It's a shame none of the women develop past sketches of angry girlfriends and no-name one-night-stands. Sexist, sure, but also a failure of imagination. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's a bro-mage to itself. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: As he did in the show, Ari single-handedly saves the movie version of Entourage from "Medellin"-scale disaster. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The jaunty style of a hit TV series has been replaced by huge spasms of false energy and a sense of barely concealed flop sweat. Read more