Fences VOD Release Date
The movie Fences is already released on VOD in the USA. The upcoming VOD release date in the UK is to be announced.
A man has dreamed of being a baseball great but ended up collecting trash.
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What do the critics say?
Based on 24 Fences VOD reviews, Fences gets an average VOD review score of 81. The score for all versions is 81 based on a total of 96 reviews.
4/4
www.seattletimes.comVOD
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis create a mesmerizing symphony of emotion, finding both love and tragedy in every look and line of this poetic adaptation.
2561d ago100/100
www.villagevoice.comVOD
I shouldn't have to explain why Fences, the August Wilson play now adapted for the screen, is important.
2561d ago100/100
www.washingtonpost.comVOD
Ringing with both ancient wisdom and searing relevance, Fences feels as if it’s been crafted for the ages, and for this very minute.
2561d ago5/5
www.empireonline.comVOD
An adaptation of August Wilson’s award-winning play in which fiftysomething garbage collector (and almost-pro baseball player) Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) struggles with a f...
2561d ago100/100
www.wsj.comVOD
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis star in August Wilson’s play about the struggles of a black family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
2561d ago4/4
www.rogerebert.comVOD
This repeated scenario forms the basis of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Fences.” 29 years after its Broadway premiere, “Fences” arrives in theaters courtesy of a...
2561d ago90/100
www.nytimes.comVOD
Even as it properly foregrounds Wilson’s dialogue — few playwrights have approached his genius for turning workaday vernacular into poetry — Fences is much more than a filmed re...
2561d agoA-/A+
ew.comVOD
Washington and his costar Viola Davis first wrestled with August Wilson’s great American play in a 2010 revival on Broadway.
2561d ago88/100
www.chicagotribune.comVOD
Robust, delicate, sublimely acted and a close cinematic cousin to the theatrical original, director Denzel Washington's film version of Fences makes up for a lot of overeager or...
2561d ago3.5/4
www.rollingstone.comVOD
Doubling as director, the Oscar-winner scores with this faithful, unforgettable take on August Wilson's tragedy of the everyman.
2561d ago3.5/4
www.philly.comVOD
Fences, opening Christmas Day, is a searing and gut-wrenching adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning play, set during the 1950s as the civil rights era is just dawning.
2561d ago4/5
www.austinchronicle.comVOD
Fences garnered author Wilson both a Tony Award for Best Play and a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1987, and this film adaptation will likely pick up an Academy Award or two come O...
2561d agoB/A+
thefilmstage.comVOD
Fences is a reasonably strong adaptation and further evidence that Washington has an assured hand with both actors and the camera, but it feels stuck between its reverence to th...
2561d ago4/5
www.theguardian.comVOD
This long-awaited film adaptation of the August Wilson play remains stagy, but as a showcase for two towering performances it could hardly be improved.
2561d ago4/5
www.telegraph.co.ukVOD
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis make for a sensational double act.
2561d agoB-/A+
www.avclub.comVOD
Denzel Washington shines in an inconsistent adaptation of August Wilson’s classic Fences.
2561d ago70/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comVOD
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis reprise their stage roles in Washington's screen adaptation of the beloved 1950s-set August Wilson play about a black family in Pittsburgh.
2561d ago3.5/5
wegotthiscovered.comVOD
Fences is old-school Americana that's driven by dynamite performances all around, albeit a bit stuffy in nature.
2561d ago70/100
www.thewrap.comVOD
Washington’s third directorial effort is his surest yet, honoring August Wilson’s powerful evocation of an African-American patriarch in 1950s Pittsburgh.
2561d agoC/A+
theplaylist.netVOD
“Fences” does contain some great narrative texture about patriarchy, black masculinity, and father and son tensions.
2561d ago2.5/4
www.slantmagazine.comVOD
Danzel Washington honors the manna of Fences's being: the micro of romantic longing, self-loathing, and nostalgia.
2561d ago2.5/4
nypost.comVOD
Honorable, worthy and windy, “Fences” is essentially a PBS episode of “Great Performances” that is inflated for the big screen without ever quite belonging there.
2561d ago60/100
time.comVOD
Reverent Fences works so hard...it stops working.
2561d ago60/100
variety.comVOD
Denzel Washington directs and stars in a towering screen version of August Wilson's play about a flawed inner-city patriarch. It's compelling, but also top-heavy with importance.
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