It's fun watching Ethan Hawke's oddball robber socking it to The Man in a wig and stick-on handlebars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2019

The ever watchable Ethan Hawke is the best thing in this crime caper. It's uneven and lacks the power of its premise but always manages to keep your attention hostage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2019

From its gaudy 70s costuming to its goofy, wobbling tone, everything about this film feels uncomfortably broad.

| Jun 23, 2019

Age becomes Ethan Hawke. The more raspy and wrinkled he gets, the better he is on screen... And here he holds together a film that is shaky in many respects and shouldn't work.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 21, 2019

[Ethan] Hawke and his Easy Rider moustache are clearly having a wild old time and their gonzo enthusiasm just about powers this otherwise inert drama over the county line.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 20, 2019

The one-note wackiness of tone wars against the witty potshots, presumably intended, at incompetence on both sides of the law.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2019

An absurd or rather absurdist true-crime melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2019

More like Dog's Dinner Afternoon.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2019

The situation, as presented here, isn't unbelievable, exactly. It's just oddly dull. Hawke is not.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2019

Budreau states at the outset that the true story he's working from is absurd, and it's clear that he relishes that absurdity: yes, lives are being threatened throughout and powerful feelings are at play, but this is a strange and amiable comedy at heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2019

For a movie that claims up front to be based "on an absurd but true story," Stockholm sure could use some absurdity coursing through its veins.

| Original Score: C | Apr 26, 2019

If you're going to skim along the surface of a story such as this, you'd be hard-pressed to cast someone better suited to the role of the clearly doomed but still irresistible charmer than Ethan Hawke.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2019

Thanks to the excellence of its two key performances, "Stockholm" is an uncommonly effective thriller, one with a heart and a brain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2019

For the most part, Budreau pulls off an entertaining dramatization of events, thanks largely to his charismatic lead.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 24, 2019

[A]n enlightening, lively, perhaps not unfamiliar outing.

| Apr 17, 2019

Budreau asserts a kind of tortured primness, as if chastened by the realization that this all actually happened to real people. And they seem to be having more fun than we are.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2019

The best thing you can say about "Stockholm" is that it's good enough to prove that a much better film could be made from this story.

| Original Score: C | Apr 12, 2019

Beware of any film that begins with the words "based on an absurd but true story."

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2019

It's a bit tonally inconsistent and ultimately doesn't add up to much -- it kind of slips through your fingers the minute it's over -- but Stockholm is just light on its feet enough to keep you entertained while you're watching it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2019

Something mysterious-a contagion of souls-occurred in that vault, and Budreau's movie, entertaining as it is, leaves us little the wiser.

| Apr 12, 2019