A Simple Favor (L'ombre d'Emily) 2018 Watch Free in HD

San Diego Reader

Director Paul Feig doesn't seem able to decide whether he's making a slightly outré crime comedy, a blithely twisted relationship thriller, a brightly lit horror melodrama, or maybe an arch meta-take on all three.

September 14, 2018

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Pajiba

It's a film trapped between two genres that doesn't quite succeed at either, although to its credit, the likable cast - and especially the performance of Blake Lively - make it a worthy digital rental or Netflix watch.

September 18, 2018

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Metro (UK)

While Feig's neo-noir soap opera fizzes with comedy camp, Jessica Sharzer's script is spiked with acid wit and chilling nastiness.

September 19, 2018

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New Yorker

The performances by Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are so invigorating, so generous with pointed inflections and snappy gestures, that they fill the movie's good-humored, amply plotted emptiness.

September 14, 2018

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Paste Magazine

As messy and predictable as its plot can get, A Simple Favor is an engaging throwback to the aforementioned tongue-in-cheek mysteries, drawing much of its energy from the chemistry between Kendrick and Lively. It need not be any more than that.

September 18, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

What a relief to watch a film unafraid of letting its hair down.

September 14, 2018

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Fort Worth Weekly

Better yet, this disreputably entertaining thriller makes us see everybody involved in a new light.

September 18, 2018

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New York Magazine/Vulture

A Simple Favor seems to yearn for a bygone era of nail-biter, but rather than wallow in pastiche, it comes up with something truly contemporary feeling.

September 14, 2018

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Time Out

It's gratifying to see Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick both earning their keep in director Paul Feig's borderline-nutso crime comedy, one that won't be confused for a new Gone Girl. But even second-rate trashy turnarounds are worth savoring.

September 14, 2018

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Schmoes Know

The ladies made me care throughout...I sat there intrigued, interested, and I thought it worked.

September 18, 2018

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Liquid Marmalade

Save your popcorn money unless you're in need of a giggle and into a whole new genre of thriller comedy.

September 18, 2018

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Rolling Stone

Until an ending that flies ruinously off the rails, Paul Feig's bouncy comedy-thriller brings out the scrappy best in Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively and offers an unexpected take on the twists and turns of female friendship.

September 14, 2018

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