BlackBerry

critic Reviews

, 97% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • With intelligence as sharp as its humor, BlackBerry takes a terrifically entertaining look at the rise and fall of a generation-defining gadget.
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    Craig MathiesonThe Age (Australia)
    It’s a culture clash business comic-drama where the geeks and the suits go on a rollercoaster ride, a story stripped of outside life but rife with telling touches.
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    Brent SimonAV Club
    Investing heartily in its story's personalities, and eschewing myth-making reverence or preciousness, BlackBerry's makers entertainingly frame their film as a workplace dramedy about industry gate-crashers rudely ejected from a party of their own staging.
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    Tim RobeyDaily Telegraph (UK)
    Rise-and-fall stories so often gloat after the bursting of the bubble, but this one is all condolences.
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    Kevin MaherTimes (UK)
    Johnson is also ruthless in his depiction of the business reality behind the glossy surface waffle of the tech dream.
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    Danny LeighFinancial Times
    Yet despite the guffaws, the film (directed by Matt Johnson) is deeper than a mere morality play about villainous money men.
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    Wendy IdeObserver (UK)
    It’s a film, ultimately, about failure. And immediately that makes it a far more intriguing proposition than all the boardroom backslapping of a movie such as Air.
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    Pedro GallegoEspinof
    BlackBerry also has the interesting component of a tragedy heralded by the powerful and ephemeral success of the device. [Full review in Spanish]
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    James Preston PooleDiscussing Film
    Giving the turbulent tale of one of America’s first smartphone’s rise and fall an appropriately rollicking biopic, Matt Johnson transforms what could’ve been a dry visual representation of a Wikipedia article into a mini tech epic.
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    Joe GeorgeThe Progressive
    Stories about American entrepreneurs are as old and fraudulent as our stories about discovery and the frontier—but BlackBerry has no such love for the corporate ethos.
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    Shakyl LambertCGMagazine
    Every time Howerton enters a scene, he exudes a pure, visceral intensity in a way that is terrifying, hilarious, and consistently captivating.
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