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Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O'Dowd, Terrence Howard, Jaeden Martell, Kimberly Quinn, Lenny Venito, Nate Corddry (plus)Résumés(1)
Maggie and her adopted 12-year-old son, Oliver, move next door to war veteran Vincent, but when Oliver gets locked out after school one day, Vincent allows him to stay at his house until his mom gets home. Because he has bills up to the ceiling and is desperate for cash, he tells Maggie he'll babysit Oliver every day after school. Vincent then introduces Oliver to his lifestyle, including gambling, drinking, and his relationship with a Russian prostitute. (The Weinstein Company)
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Bill Murray fait plaisir à voir ces derniers temps, car il est enfin sorti de son carcan d’acteur à l’expression unique qui joue toujours les mêmes personnages. Enfin, il a quelque chose à montrer ! Manifestement, il s’en est donné à cœur joie dans St. Vincent et le résultat est au-delà de mes attentes. Les autres prestations sont du même acabit, notamment avec l’anglais russe de Naomi Watts qui est irrésistible. Un film décontracté, agréable, avec une fin typiquement américaine, mais sur laquelle on peut fermer les yeux.
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Bill est de retour. Et génial encore une fois. Comme s'il complétait la trilogie des personnages de Lost in Translation et Broken Flowers. Mais même si son histoire et les histoires de ses voisins ou de la lady-of-the-night sont racontées dans une ambiance détendue et contiennent une poignée d'épisodes amusants, elles souffrent d'un manque d'originalité, de sentimentalisme et n'ont rien pour rester gravées dans la mémoire. Toutes ces grimaces comiques, le jeu à la note mentor/garçon ou les créations excentriques de Naomi en tant que prostituée russe sonnent un peu trop artificiels. [San Diego Film Festival]
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As soon as I saw the poster, I said to myself, "This is going to be absolute nonsense." Well, I couldn't have been more wrong. It's not nonsense. The film got me and surprised me. Bill Murray is great here, and he plays a rather challenging role this time. I finally got a chance to see Melissa McCarthy in something where she can show that she is a capable actress. And in the end, there is also the excellent Naomi Watts, who is also different than what we are used to from her. And great child actors. I thoroughly enjoyed this with all the emotions that came with it.
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Even though the ending is full of pathos, I didn’t mind it at all. All the while I was watching this movie, I felt such a kind heart from it that the ending put me into an incredibly wonderful mood. Bill Murray plays a grouch who has such great reasons to act the way he does that even had he never starred in another movie I’d always remember him with fondness thanks to this role. But the movie is not about him alone. It’s also about a little boy portrayed by Jaeden Lieberher, his mom, but also about the teacher who’s bringing faith into it, which would usually annoy me just a bit. But in this case, I don’t mind at all, because everything is so beautifully natural and sincere that it gave me the impression that this world can’t be so bad after all.
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As much as the film scored points here and there, for its thorough study of what my old age will look like, by the end it managed to blow them all with its cunning elegance. These safe bets irritate me, and I still hate myself for them, for the way they show my lowliness by making me predictably amused just by Bill Murray being alcoholically cool and pissing off the whole street. Fortunately, St. Vincent is pretty poorly shot, has downright terrible editing (it looks like they switched to PG-13 at the last minute), and the ending is exactly so wrong and unfunny that the real Vincent would have thrown a shoe at the TV.
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