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Movie ID: 769
RT slug: blackberry
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blackberry
Release year: 2023
Runtime: 119 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2023-05-12
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2023-06-02
Tomatometer final: 97%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Directors: Matt Johnson
Writers: Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller
Producers: Fraser Ash, Kevin Krikst, Matthew Miller, Niv Fichman
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:10:59
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:10:59
'BlackBerry' tells the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.
With intelligence as sharp as its humor, BlackBerry takes a terrifically entertaining look at the rise and fall of a generation-defining gadget.
Canonical reviews: 212
Canonical fresh: 206
Canonical rotten: 6
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 97%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 20:44:03
Snapshot Tomatometer: 97%
Snapshot review count: 212
Snapshot fresh count: 206
Snapshot rotten count: 6
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1351 (full_snapshot)
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174460 | Jon Winkler | InBetweenDrafts | Fresh | 8/10 | 2026-04-14T15:22:21Z | 2026-04-14 15:22:21 | Howerton enters every scene with a swagger that’s both imposing and filled with insecurity, knowing that even the tiniest bother could send him into a tornado of rage. |
| 174461 | Alfred Castaneda | Shade Studios | Fresh | — | 2025-07-30T14:58:05Z | 2025-07-30 14:58:05 | By the end of it, you’ll be Googling every character and aspect about Blackberry and former parent company Research In Motion to see how real this all was. A not so spoiler: it happened, but not as crazy as it unfolds on screen. |
| 174462 | Maxance Vincent | Film Speak | Fresh | A | 2025-07-13T23:22:40Z | 2025-07-13 23:22:40 | If Air was “the crowd-pleasing dad movie of the year,” BlackBerry is the complete antithesis of that. However, Air is the happy meal, and BlackBerry is the prime rib. |
| 174463 | Pedro Gallego | Espinof | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-10-09T00:39:39Z | 2024-10-09 00:39:39 | BlackBerry also has the interesting component of a tragedy heralded by the powerful and ephemeral success of the device. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 174464 | James Preston Poole | Discussing Film | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2024-08-22T08:12:30Z | 2024-08-22 08:12:30 | Giving the turbulent tale of one of America’s first smartphone’s rise and fall an appropriately rollicking biopic, Matt Johnson transforms what could’ve been a dry visual representation of a Wikipedia article into a mini tech epic. |
| 174465 | Joe George | The Progressive | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-07-20T00:01:38Z | 2024-07-20 00:01:38 | Stories about American entrepreneurs are as old and fraudulent as our stories about discovery and the frontier—but BlackBerry has no such love for the corporate ethos. |
| 174466 | Shakyl Lambert | CGMagazine | Fresh | 9/10 | 2024-07-12T20:27:33Z | 2024-07-12 20:27:33 | Every time Howerton enters a scene, he exudes a pure, visceral intensity in a way that is terrifying, hilarious, and consistently captivating. |
| 174467 | Connor Lightbody | TAKE ONE Magazine | Rotten | 2/5 | 2024-07-04T18:14:24Z | 2024-07-04 18:14:24 | Howerton almost rescues this uneven, chaotic film in a performance that will make you wonder where this has been his entire career, but this is the BlackBerry of techy biopics. It’s nothing new anymore. |
| 174468 | James Croot | The Post NZ | Fresh | — | 2024-05-26T20:30:23Z | 2024-05-26 20:30:23 | A fascinating, entertaining and – somewhat ironic – look back at a one-time, must-have item that once made up 45% of the cellphone market. |
| 174469 | Craig Mathieson | The Age (Australia) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2024-04-18T22:39:43Z | 2024-04-18 22:39:43 | It’s a culture clash business comic-drama where the geeks and the suits go on a rollercoaster ride, a story stripped of outside life but rife with telling touches. |
| 174470 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2024-03-12T14:32:15Z | 2024-03-12 14:32:15 | One of 2023's 20 best films. |
| 174471 | Marya E. Gates | Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) | Fresh | — | 2024-02-13T00:17:54Z | 2024-02-13 00:17:54 | The comedy comes instead from Johnson’s deliberate direction. It’s found in an ironic zoom here, a hilarious cut there. This alchemy finds the most magic in how it supports Glenn Howerton’s towering performance. |
| 174472 | Catherine Springer | CathsFilmForum.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2024-02-03T23:21:46Z | 2024-02-03 23:21:46 | It is in Glenn Howerton’s over-the-top portrayal of Jim that BlackBerry soars above everything else you’ve seen in this genre, and catapults BlackBerry into the satirical stratosphere. |
| 174473 | Walter Chaw | Film Freak Central | Fresh | — | 2024-01-05T00:56:27Z | 2024-01-05 00:56:27 | Friendship and family start us off...and here we are still thrashing... |
| 174474 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Fresh | 7/10 | 2024-01-02T06:10:43Z | 2024-01-02 06:10:43 | It's a devilishly entertaining comedy-drama, that boasts solid performances and never loses its consistent pace chronicling the rise and fall of BlackBerry. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 174475 | Ella Feldman | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2023-12-22T19:58:59Z | 2023-12-22 19:58:59 | Jay Baruchel is wonderful as BlackBerry creator Mike Lazaridis, but it’s Glenn Howerton who steals the show as co-CEO Jim Balsillie, giving a hysterical, hot-tempered performance that could slot right into an episode of Succession. |
| 174476 | Jason Blake | Limelight | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-12-08T01:34:39Z | 2023-12-08 01:34:39 | [It's] a tale of what happens when pals become business partners, when smart little companies get into bed with big dumb ones, and what happens to game-changers when the rules are been thrown out the window by someone else. |
| 174477 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Rotten | — | 2023-11-28T11:30:28Z | 2023-11-28 11:30:28 | It’s by the numbers, and its sense of self importance renders it all kind of silly. |
| 174478 | Sebastian Zavala Kahn | Cinencuentro | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-11-25T14:06:03Z | 2023-11-25 14:06:03 | Presenting us with very human protagonists and developing a potentially boring narrative with energy, “BlackBerry” works as a docu-drama. Surely those who were alive at this time and had a BlackBerry will feel some nostalgia. Full review in Spanish. |
| 174479 | Joel Keller | Decider | Fresh | — | 2023-11-15T21:49:26Z | 2023-11-15 21:49:26 | Despite playing the story for more laughs than are probably necessary, the lead performances of BlackBerry are very watchable, and the story of the brand’s rise and demise is certainly one worth watching. |
| 174480 | Louisa Moore | Screen Zealots | Fresh | — | 2023-10-24T17:47:51Z | 2023-10-24 17:47:51 | This entertaining film features standout work from Baruchel, especially when he begins to crack with the realization that Apple is getting ready to kill his company with their upcoming iPhone, a product with the highest consumer interest in history. |
| 174481 | Gemma Creagh | Film Ireland Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-10-18T21:17:22Z | 2023-10-18 21:17:22 | BlackBerry is an impressive feat that marks Johnson's leap from indie darling/TV Director to someone to genuinely watch out for. |
| 174482 | Brent Simon | AV Club | Fresh | B+ | 2023-10-15T17:07:46Z | 2023-10-15 17:07:46 | Investing heartily in its story's personalities, and eschewing myth-making reverence or preciousness, BlackBerry's makers entertainingly frame their film as a workplace dramedy about industry gate-crashers rudely ejected from a party of their own staging. |
| 174483 | Andy Lea | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-10T23:35:45Z | 2023-10-10 23:35:45 | Pacy, well-acted, and brilliantly written, this boardroom farce pushes all right the buttons. |
| 174484 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-10T18:21:58Z | 2023-10-10 18:21:58 | Rise-and-fall stories so often gloat after the bursting of the bubble, but this one is all condolences. |
| 174485 | Tom Shone | Sunday Times (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-09T23:47:45Z | 2023-10-09 23:47:45 | [BlackBerry] perfectly captures the nerds-versus-the-system volatility of the tech bubble: Baruchel and Johnson stammer and gulp, while Howerton commands the film like a fascist warrior who uses fools to floss his teeth. |
| 174486 | Kevin Maher | The Times (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-09T23:34:34Z | 2023-10-09 23:34:34 | Johnson is also ruthless in his depiction of the business reality behind the glossy surface waffle of the tech dream. |
| 174487 | Danny Leigh | Financial Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-09T17:21:35Z | 2023-10-09 17:21:35 | Yet despite the guffaws, the film (directed by Matt Johnson) is deeper than a mere morality play about villainous money men. |
| 174488 | Wendy Ide | Observer (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-08T13:29:53Z | 2023-10-08 13:29:53 | It’s a film, ultimately, about failure. And immediately that makes it a far more intriguing proposition than all the boardroom backslapping of a movie such as Air. |
| 174489 | Paul Whitington | Irish Independent | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-10-06T19:29:02Z | 2023-10-06 19:29:02 | Blackberry gets lost in the minutiae of its own story halfway through, but is otherwise an entertaining cautionary tale. |
| 174490 | Max Copeman | Radio Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-05T21:24:47Z | 2023-10-05 21:24:47 | Bolstered by sterling work from Baruchel and a ferociously good Howerton as the unscrupulous Balsillie, BlackBerry is a cautionary tale of tech-world hubris told with dark humour and a satirical edge. |
| 174491 | Adam Sweeting | The Arts Desk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-05T17:49:21Z | 2023-10-05 17:49:21 | Business-orientated stories don’t always make great entertainment, but BlackBerry works through its eccentric mix of characters, droll screenplay and the inherent drama of its vertiginous rise-and-fall storyline. |
| 174492 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-10-05T10:57:36Z | 2023-10-05 10:57:36 | This is a watchable enough film... |
| 174493 | Neil Smith | Total Film | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-10-04T17:18:26Z | 2023-10-04 17:18:26 | A device that went the way of the dodo gets a lively epitaph you won’t need your hand held to enjoy. |
| 174494 | Brian Lloyd | entertainment.ie | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-04T16:29:32Z | 2023-10-04 16:29:32 | It's all down to the performances that sets 'BlackBerry' apart from the herd of other corpo-dramas of late. |
| 174495 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-03T19:15:08Z | 2023-10-03 19:15:08 | All three leads are superb and Johnson’s sharp script and fly-on-the-wall shooting style enables him to walk a fine between venerating and eviscerating his subjects. |
| 174496 | Beth Webb | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-10-03T16:14:25Z | 2023-10-03 16:14:25 | A corporate comedy of errors — but the film really shines thanks to Howerton, whose towering, shark-like performance makes him a villain for the ages. |
| 174497 | Ann Manov | New Statesman | Rotten | — | 2023-09-29T21:48:15Z | 2023-09-29 21:48:15 | The characters are thinly sketched stereotypes (with the exception of Howerton, who it is hard not to like in any role). This is the kind of movie you would watch on a plane without complaint, then utterly forget. |
| 174498 | Jane Freebury | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-09-27T23:59:11Z | 2023-09-27 23:59:11 | It's an intriguing take on the spectacular rise and demise of the cell phone that everyone had to have, until they didn't, but aspects of the movie's style and tone are distracting and over-drawn, detracting from its impact overall |
| 174499 | Philip De Semlyen | Time Out | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-09-21T18:44:58Z | 2023-09-21 18:44:58 | Even more than The Social Network, where Aaron Sorkin’s script treats Mark Zuckerberg and co like flawed deities, this blackly comic corporate drama finds something intrinsically ridiculous about these egotistical men. |
| 174500 | Shahbaz Siddiqui | The Movie Podcast | Fresh | — | 2023-09-20T16:45:32Z | 2023-09-20 16:45:32 | BlackBerry is one of the BEST films of the year and a fully realized Canadian heritage moment. |
| 174501 | John McDonald | Australian Financial Review | Fresh | — | 2023-09-17T01:51:36Z | 2023-09-17 01:51:36 | After the product romance comes the product tragedy. While Barbie is boosting Mattel’s sales figures, and Air made everybody feel warm and fuzzy about Nike’s best-selling sports shoe, for the BlackBerry it’s all too late |
| 174502 | Nuha Hassan | Nuha Hassan (Medium) | Fresh | — | 2023-09-08T18:17:00Z | 2023-09-08 18:17:00 | Even when Blackberry centres on the cautionary tale of the company’s demise, it also tells a refreshing and entertaining part of geek and tech history. |
| 174503 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-09-01T10:25:06Z | 2023-09-01 10:25:06 | Blackberry is a classic rags-to-riches-to-rags story; a feel-good tale that transforms into a meditation on arrogance and neglect. |
| 174504 | Caffeinated Clint | Moviehole | Fresh | — | 2023-08-28T05:46:18Z | 2023-08-28 05:46:18 | BlackBerry is a timely and excellent reminder that, that as far as that piece of technology you’re reading this review on, there’s always something better just around the corner. |
| 174505 | David Griffiths | Subculture Entertainment | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-08-26T12:33:29Z | 2023-08-26 12:33:29 | BlackBerry is a well written drama with amazing charactersiation and tension. I would not be surprised at all if this wasn’t a sleeper surprise come Oscar time because this is one of the best written and acted films I have seen so far this year. |
| 174506 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-08-25T02:58:21Z | 2023-08-25 02:58:21 | If you are fascinated by fiscal tales of woe such as those spun by The Big Short then this is the movie for you. |
| 174507 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Fresh | — | 2023-08-20T22:55:08Z | 2023-08-20 22:55:08 | BlackBerry takes viewers on a roller coaster ride in telling this 'based on a true story' about the rise and fall of BlackBerry, the first popular smartphone. Glenn Howerton gives a standout performance as a greedy corporate villain with a nasty temper. |
| 174508 | Cain Noble-Davies | FILMINK (Australia) | Fresh | 16/20 | 2023-08-18T01:34:47Z | 2023-08-18 01:34:47 | … a hilarious and decidedly more fictionalised take on the tech biopic sub-genre that still says a lot about the sector and how desperation is the father of invention. |
| 174509 | Andiee Paviour | Nobody's Reading This But Me | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-17T21:57:00Z | 2023-08-17 21:57:00 | Director Matt Johnson’s nutty slice of tech history is a crack-up at the start. But nobody is laughing when the BlackBerry’s nuts and bolts come undone. |
| 174510 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-17T05:48:08Z | 2023-08-17 05:48:08 | All the pressures and compromises of corporate life are on show, magnified by the speed at which the tech industry moves. |
| 174511 | Alexandra Heller-Nicholas | AWFJ.org | Fresh | — | 2023-08-15T10:43:09Z | 2023-08-15 10:43:09 | A bleakly comic requiem for an almost forgotten one-time technological breakthrough, BlackBerry is heck of a ride. |
| 174512 | Simon Miraudo | Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-04T01:59:14Z | 2023-08-04 01:59:14 | Excellent. More inventive and with more invective than anticipated. |
| 174513 | Paul Kanieski | KSQD Community Radio | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T01:53:23Z | 2023-07-26 01:53:23 | Snappy editing, sharp dialog, and a judicious rock soundtrack create an exciting portrait of an insanely successful high-tech startup – until, of course, fortunes turn. |
| 174514 | Tina Kakadelis | Film Obsessive | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T21:08:33Z | 2023-07-25 21:08:33 | BlackBerry is a compelling blend of technology history, human relationships, and the ever-looming fear of becoming irrelevant. |
| 174515 | Matthew Creith | Matinee With Matt | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T20:53:22Z | 2023-07-25 20:53:22 | Matt Johnson takes a quintessential biopic formula and makes his audience understand that good ideas can falter under the weight of men who can’t see the sky beyond the clouds. |
| 174516 | Prabhjot Bains | Tilt Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-07-23T22:56:06Z | 2023-07-23 22:56:06 | Matt Johnson’s heartfelt, humorous biopic manifests as both a new Canadian classic and a vibrant entry into the tech-movie canon. |
| 174517 | Michael Cook | KLRT-TV | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2023-07-21T22:13:39Z | 2023-07-21 22:13:39 | You already know what happens to Blackberry, but seeing how it all happens is part of the fun. |
| 174518 | Adam Nayman | The Ringer | Fresh | — | 2023-07-21T00:02:45Z | 2023-07-21 00:02:45 | The MVP: Glenn Howerton as BlackBerry’s unscrupulous co-CEO, Jim Balsillie, who never met an underling he didn’t want to snap in half. |
| 174519 | Jillian Chilingerian | Offscreen With Jillian | Fresh | — | 2023-07-20T18:18:52Z | 2023-07-20 18:18:52 | BlackBerry is a refreshing, thought-provoking entry into the origin story film genre with its focus on the rise and fall of the first smartphone, the Blackberry. |
| 174520 | Carmen Paddock | The Skinny | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-07-12T08:37:01Z | 2023-07-12 08:37:01 | ...the balance of goofy and deadpan suits the pacing once the phone launches on the market. |
| 174521 | Kathryn Reklis | The Christian Century | Fresh | — | 2023-06-22T22:57:48Z | 2023-06-22 22:57:48 | [It] turns what would be a boring story about corporate strategy into high stakes drama. |
| 174522 | Dorothy Woodend | The Tyee (British Columbia) | Fresh | — | 2023-06-09T00:42:06Z | 2023-06-09 00:42:06 | BlackBerry’s smart writing, zippy pace and thoroughly Canadian approach gives it a great deal of charm. |
| 174523 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-06-06T23:55:46Z | 2023-06-06 23:55:46 | A gripping biographical tech-thriller with refreshingly witty passages and character-driven fortitude as its most entertaining values. |
| 174524 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Fresh | 7/10 | 2023-06-04T22:05:36Z | 2023-06-04 22:05:36 | A surprisingly entertaining film about the ups and downs of a unique business venture. |
| 174525 | Sarah Marrs | Lainey Gossip | Fresh | — | 2023-06-03T19:40:36Z | 2023-06-03 19:40:36 | BlackBerry stands out by not being a nostalgic recounting of A Thing We Love From A Simpler Time, but a cautionary tale of how the same cycles of greed and corruption continue to play out over and over. |
| 174526 | Joe Friar | Fort Worth Report | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-06-03T17:04:11Z | 2023-06-03 17:04:11 | The rise and fall of the smartphone-turned-status symbol is chronicled in the funniest film of the year by writer-director Matt Johnson. |
| 174527 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-26T17:18:07Z | 2023-05-26 17:18:07 | Johnson keeps things distinctly character-focused and never loses sight of the humanity at his story’s core. And all while being effortlessly funny in a subdued sharply witty way. |
| 174528 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | B- | 2023-05-23T20:15:32Z | 2023-05-23 20:15:32 | For a while, 2023 had a new top film. |
| 174529 | Amanda Mazzillo | Film Joy | Fresh | — | 2023-05-22T21:49:50Z | 2023-05-22 21:49:50 | BlackBerry is a funny character-driven exploration of the rise and fall of a company and its two very different CEOs brought to life through powerful performances from Glenn Howerton and Jay Baruchel. |
| 174530 | Bill Arceneaux | Moviegoing with Bill | Fresh | 5/5 | 2023-05-22T13:06:48Z | 2023-05-22 13:06:48 | BlackBerry is at its best when it has room to breathe and space to get loud. It’s theatrical in the best sense of the word, and a finely shot and composed comedy of misfits and mistakes. |
| 174531 | Emma Badame | AWFJ.org | Fresh | — | 2023-05-20T20:08:08Z | 2023-05-20 20:08:08 | BlackBerry is as witty and sharp as it is entertaining, with its two leads, Baruchel and Howerton, absolutely nailing their characters and mining each for every bit of comedy and, indeed, drama. |
| 174532 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2023-05-19T20:27:01Z | 2023-05-19 20:27:01 | An excellent exploration of an innovative but doomed product. |
| 174533 | Adam Kempenaar | Filmspotting | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-05-19T16:22:12Z | 2023-05-19 16:22:12 | Howerton plays Balsillie like an actual shark – perpetually on the hunt, dead-eyed and dispassionate. |
| 174534 | Collin Garbarino | WORLD | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-05-19T14:17:38Z | 2023-05-19 14:17:38 | "BlackBerry" is a comic drama, and in true Canadian style, it features plenty of irony and satire. The movie isn’t actually about smartphones or the building of a company—it just uses a real company as the setting for the rise and fall of fallible men. |
| 174535 | Sonny Bunch | The Bulwark | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-05-19T13:23:48Z | 2023-05-19 13:23:48 | Glenn Howerton has a perfect way of twitching his eyes and tensing his mouth and cocking his head to convey both intense frustration and unearned confidence. It’s Oscar-worthy work. |
| 174536 | Sarah Knight Adamson | Sarah's Backstage Pass | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-05-19T12:08:02Z | 2023-05-19 12:08:02 | The mixture of creativity, and humor with cut-throat business is an intriguing tale. |
| 174537 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-05-19T11:53:11Z | 2023-05-19 11:53:11 | ...a fairly typical biopic that admittedly does remain a cut above its similarly-themed brethren... |
| 174538 | Bill Newcott | The Saturday Evening Post | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-19T10:26:48Z | 2023-05-19 10:26:48 | A wildly entertaining account of, as one character describes it, “The smart phone everyone had before they had an iPhone.” |
| 174539 | Linda Cook | OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) | Fresh | — | 2023-05-19T06:28:43Z | 2023-05-19 06:28:43 | 3 1/2 stars The sense of impending doom is palpable throughout this excellent dramedy about the rise and fall of the iconic mobile phone. |
| 174540 | Mark Jackson | Epoch Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-19T01:29:17Z | 2023-05-19 01:29:17 | An interesting character study of the two wildly different BlackBerry CEO's for whom the small, black, plastic phone functioned as Icarus's wings and flew them both too close to the sun. And plastic, like wax, melts. An engaging, cautionary tale. |
| 174541 | Alison Gillmor | Winnipeg Free Press | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-18T02:40:39Z | 2023-05-18 02:40:39 | Enjoyably seething, dorky and wryly comic. |
| 174542 | Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 4/4 | 2023-05-18T02:09:16Z | 2023-05-18 02:09:16 | This is one of those whip-smart, character- and story-driven gems that grabs you from the start and never lets go. |
| 174543 | Wade Major | FilmWeek (LAist) | Fresh | — | 2023-05-18T01:29:43Z | 2023-05-18 01:29:43 | The drama doesn't justify [the style], but once you get past that, the script is really quite good. |
| 174544 | Richard Propes | TheIndependentCritic.com | Fresh | 3.5/4.0 | 2023-05-18T01:21:18Z | 2023-05-18 01:21:18 | Baruchel is brilliant here as Lazaridis in what is easily one of his best performances. |
| 174545 | Gregory Wakeman | The National (UAE) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-17T21:48:30Z | 2023-05-17 21:48:30 | BlackBerry is all the more riveting because of how complex its characters are. So much so that you end up both loving and hating each of the characters in equal measure. |
| 174546 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-05-17T18:04:02Z | 2023-05-17 18:04:02 | With doc-style filmmaking actor-director Matt Johnson maintains a witty tone that's thoroughly engaging, even as the movie stretches into a somewhat over-extended conclusion. |
| 174547 | Monique Jones | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-05-17T15:32:03Z | 2023-05-17 15:32:03 | BlackBerry is a funny, insightful dramedy about the smartphone that started it all. |
| 174548 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Fresh | — | 2023-05-17T15:12:05Z | 2023-05-17 15:12:05 | With a robust and compelling story in hand, BlackBerry begins by returning us to the Pleistocene days of the 1990s... |
| 174549 | Sean Burns | North Shore Movies | Fresh | — | 2023-05-17T02:32:54Z | 2023-05-17 02:32:54 | Interestingly ambivalent and scabrously funny, it’s an inverted 'Social Network' for also-rans. |
| 174550 | Joanna Langfield | The Movie Minute | Fresh | — | 2023-05-16T20:31:02Z | 2023-05-16 20:31:02 | Like the device at its center, this film is smart, nimble and pretty much of a kick. |
| 174551 | Morgan Rojas | Cinemacy | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2023-05-16T17:17:28Z | 2023-05-16 17:17:28 | Glenn Howerton's comedic fingerprints are all over this film in the best way possible; anyone acting alongside him is automatically elevated to his level. |
| 174552 | Dom Sinacola | Paste Magazine | Fresh | 7.9/10 | 2023-05-16T13:35:47Z | 2023-05-16 13:35:47 | A period piece about the founding of a transformational and dramatically tragic tech company with an inimitable, blackly comic performance at it center. |
| 174553 | David Fear | Rolling Stone | Fresh | — | 2023-05-15T18:29:01Z | 2023-05-15 18:29:01 | Howerton brings something to BlackBerry, the scrappy Canadian indie about a scrappy Canadian company that changed the world, that goes above and beyond his usual lovable sociopath act. It’s not range. It’s rage. |
| 174554 | Katie Walsh | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2023-05-15T17:18:42Z | 2023-05-15 17:18:42 | What emerges from the electronic noise and fussy aesthetic of “BlackBerry” is a compelling portrait of a company that flew too close to the sun. |
| 174555 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2023-05-15T16:55:03Z | 2023-05-15 16:55:03 | BlackBerry is one of the biggest surprises of 2023. A razor-sharp cautionary tale about the phone that was ahead of Apple in the mobile device game. |
| 174556 | Abbie Bernstein | Assignment X | Fresh | B | 2023-05-15T16:29:45Z | 2023-05-15 16:29:45 | Although Blackberry could have gone deeper with certain characters and themes, it succeeds in remaining intriguing throughout, and exuding a genuine sense of regret by its end. |
| 174557 | Matt Pais | MattPais.com | Fresh | B- | 2023-05-15T12:11:20Z | 2023-05-15 12:11:20 | Entertains, lacks staying power. |
| 174558 | Lisa Trifone | Third Coast Review | Fresh | 3/4 | 2023-05-15T01:56:55Z | 2023-05-15 01:56:55 | If the end result is being even less interested in seeing corporations—and the shady men who run them—reap enormous profits off our endless desire for the Next Big Thing, well, maybe that’s the uplifting story we need after all. |
| 174559 | Eric Marchen | Rogers TV | Fresh | B+ | 2023-05-14T16:36:34Z | 2023-05-14 16:36:34 | Howerton gets the role of a life time, as this Juilliard trained actor completely disappears into the hockey loving, Gordon Gekko wannabe dispelling the stereotype of the nice Canadian. It's a tour-de-force performance. |
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