Bad Times at the El Royale
20186.8movie
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Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Instead of looking just at government surveillance, Bad Times at the El Royale investigates how religion surveils, both externally and internally. With that, the film becomes as much about the truth that characters tell one another as it is about the truth that characters tell themselves. In a development for Goddard, some of the film’s most powerful “twists” aren’t twists at all but simply confirmations of what has been true all along.
Box office. $31.8 million. Bad Times at the El Royale is a 2018 American neo-noir thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Drew Goddard.Despite this, it received positive reviews from critics, who praised the soundtrack, performances of the cast, and McGarvey's cinematography, but criticized its pacing, runtime, character beats, and Goddard's writing. At the 45th Saturn Awards, the film received five nominations, Best Writing for Goddard, Best Actor for Bridges, Best Supporting Actor for Pullman, Best Supporting Actress for Erivo, and won for Best Thriller Film.
