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Feb 24, 2023 · “Cocaine Bear” will save cinema. That’s because “Cocaine Bear” knows exactly what it is and what it needs to do. It’s about a bear ... on cocaine. Comparisons to the 2006 disaster extravaganza “Snakes on a Plane” are inevitable, with its high-concept, wild-animal premise, as well as the giddy hype that preceded it.
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Venessa Wong of Buzzfeedloved “Cocaine Bear,” writing that the excessively gory film “thrives on absurdity.” RogerEbert.com’s Christy Lemire somewhat hyperbolically suggested that “Cocaine Bear” will “save cinema,” and that the film “knows exactly what it is and what it needs to do.” In his review forThe Boston Globe, Odie Hendersoncut to the chase...
Charlotte O’Sullivan of the London Evening Standardfound the first half of “Cocaine Bear” to be a bore, but was on board for the finale. Former Boston Globe critic Ty Burrwrote on his Substack that “Cocaine Bear” is exactly what you might expect, and nothing more.
Mark Kennedy of the Associated Pressgave “Cocaine Bear” zero stars (out of four), succinctly writing, “the movie blows.” Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chroniclecriticized Banks for trying to make a movie that is “so bad that it’s good” and instead producing one that is “so bad that it’s bad.”
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Feb 23, 2023 · Film. Cocaine Bear is just the absurd creature feature throwback to save mid-tier cinema. Think Snakes on a Plane with more cocaine. By Hannah Strong. 23 February 2023.
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Feb 23, 2023 · Director Elizabeth Banks is hoping to find box office success with Cocaine Bear, which boasts an ensemble cast that includes Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Jesse Tyler ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Cocaine Bear: Directed by Elizabeth Banks. With Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ray Liotta. An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.
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Feb 24, 2023 · In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops ...
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Feb 28, 2023 · The true story of the real "Cocaine Bear" is surprisingly anticlimactic. Thankfully for us, writer Jimmy Warden and director Elizabeth Banks chose not to make a documentary, but an off-the-rails comedy gore-fest that is only inspired by the basic details. In the fall of 1985, drug smugglers threw out millions of dollars' worth of cocaine.
