Monday Reviews
I didn't get a feel for their chemistry... It felt unconvincing, underdeveloped, and kind of pointless.
| Apr 21, 2021
When they were just roaming around beautiful Greece, I was enjoying the movie. When they get into the story? Nah.
| Apr 21, 2021
That's the beauty of Argyris Papadimitropoulos's follow-up to Suntan; it's a movie that accurately reflects the highs and lows of relationships once the dust of a fling starts to settle and the work begins.
| Apr 20, 2021
The movie becomes a less than appealing blend of rave and rut.
| Apr 18, 2021
Even when your head knows better, the heart doesn't always follow. It's as predictable as the Monday morning that follows the Friday night. 'Monday'
| Original Score: B- | Apr 17, 2021
Try though the actors may, they're unable to make us care about characters who are primarily defined by their lousy decisions and who lack the spark to draw us closer to their flame.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 17, 2021
Get a room...far away form here.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2021
All in all, Mr. Papadimitropoulos maintains a delicate balance between the wryly hilarious and the heartbreaking, and sometimes the high wire trembles. But danger is intoxicating.
| Apr 16, 2021
As we watch these two likable wrecks try to carve out a place for themselves in the world, we can't help but see something of ourselves in them.
| Apr 16, 2021
That gorgeous stranger at the bar may stay gorgeous, Papadimitropoulos suggests, but the antics of youth and whirlwind romance have an undoubted expiry date.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2021
While Papadimitropoulos and his cast capture the perma-vacation feel that permeates Mickey and Chloe's happiest moments, he's less adept at navigating the heftier emotional elements.
| Original Score: C+ | Apr 16, 2021
Papadimitropoulos doesn't say a whole lot here or offer much of a lesson. This may not be a fatal problem, but it can feel trying; better to watch this film on a Friday, when you have no reason to rush through life.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 16, 2021
As the couple's once-thrilling romance quickly wanes, so does the movie.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 16, 2021
Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier himself, shows he can sizzle with costar Denise Gough for a romcom romp in Greece that starts on a sexy, swooshing high before draining out the fun for dramatic insights that never come. Bummer.
| Apr 16, 2021
Romance is often gussied up with noble heroes, dastardly villains, slapstick shenanigans, or MPAA-taunting eroticism. Monday rejects all of these adornments and is nonetheless a stunner.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 16, 2021
Papadimitropoulos has a particular feel for sun-baked hedonism and atmosphere, and Gough and Stan are extremely game.
| Original Score: B | Apr 16, 2021
This honest examination of a passionate, disastrous, adult relationship, might feel like a warning itself. Papadimitropoulos doesn't offer easy answers, but what "Monday" brings is something tangibly real and profoundly human.
| Apr 16, 2021
You just don't feel that heat.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2021
A sharply observed, well-acted picture with a lot of tart detail and a few real stings in its tail.
| Apr 15, 2021
Sebastian Stan has the moody skill as an actor to pull this off. Yet the movie, which at times feels semi-improvised, isn't structured to allow the central relationship to build dramatically.
| Apr 15, 2021