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45 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- Thankfully, the Russos imbue the often grim proceedings with the right amounts of light and levity to keep you gripped. Meanwhile, the subversive humor peppered throughout lends an anarchic energy that entertains as well as it moves.
- 60Screen RantChris AgarScreen RantChris AgarCherry is a fairly standard drama that hits the expected beats, but is still elevated by Holland's strong lead performance.
- 60EmpireJohn NugentEmpireJohn NugentThere’s much to chew on in Cherry, and not all of it works. But a never-better performance from Tom Holland, and some bold directorial choices, make it a mostly compelling watch.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFor all the frenzied action of the final scenes though, there's an airless, overwrought sense of diminishing returns — and that's a comedown we've seen too many times before.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreBut it’s like they’re at a loss about what to do with real people, real situations, real traumas or emotions without comic book men and women in tights and lots and lots of effects.
- 50TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeFrom its facile depiction of the role of incarceration in the rehab process — addiction is a health issue that we keep mistakenly treating as a criminal issue — to the under-writing of the characters, what should be a harrowing drama instead comes off as an anti-drug pamphlet.
- 33ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonThere’s a fundamental disconnect between Cherry’s cynicism and Holland’s innate naivete that just makes the whole affair feel wrong somehow, not to mention crushingly long at nearly two and a half hours.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyWalker's story no doubt is grounded in a very real milieu that reflects the grim existence of countless Americans returning from active duty to a country blighted by economic downturn, shrinking opportunity and substance abuse. But the only reality Cherry reflects with numbing insistence is that of co-directors getting high on their own high style.
- 25IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichCherry sometimes feels like more of a live-action comic book than any of the Avengers movies ever did.