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The panel’s deficiency of enthusiasm for this class expresses itself successful a drastic falloff aft the archetypal 3 contenders, arsenic antithetic from each different arsenic TV movies tin be. “Rebel Ridge,” the aggravated actioner with a should-be star-making show by Aaron Pierre, is astatine No. 1. Tied for 2nd are the 4th “Bridget Jones” movie, rom-com “Mad About the Boy,” and “Mountainhead,” which Lorraine Ali calls a “billionaire satire.”
“We each gripe astir this class each year,” acknowledges Tracy Brown, “but I deliberation the toughest happening … is the scope of projects it encompasses, from the much blockbuster-skewing ‘Rebel Ridge’ to the much firmly indie ‘Am I OK?’. And we each request to beryllium OK with that.”
Kristen Baldwin sums up the vexation connected the portion of immoderate panelists: “Suggestion: Change the sanction of this class to Nontheatrical Movies. The conception of a ‘TV Movie,’ arsenic we erstwhile knew it, is dead.”
Still, Matt Roush sees thing to observe astatine the summit, saying “Mountainhead” “feels similar a front-runner connected pedigree alone,” citing its penning and absorption by ‘Succession’s’ Jesse Armstrong, and its starry cast. “This darkest of farces is besides frighteningly timely.”
1. “Rebel Ridge”
2. (tie) “Mountainhead”
2. (tie) “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
4. “Out of My Mind”
5. “The Gorge”
6. “G20”
7. “Am I OK?”
Los Angeles Times
Lorraine Ali
1. “Mountainhead”
2. “Rebel Ridge”
3. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
4. (tie) “G20”
4. (tie) “The Gorge”
“Starring Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef, the billionaire satire ‘Mountainhead’ slid successful conscionable nether the eligibility wire. Peacock’s ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ is the 4th movie successful the rom-com saga starring Renée Zellweger and packs the astir sanction recognition.”
Entertainment Weekly
Kristen Baldwin
1. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
2. “Mountainhead”
3. “Rebel Ridge”
4. “Out of My Mind”
5. “Am I OK?”
“Suggestion: Change the sanction of this class to Nontheatrical Movies. The conception of a ‘TV Movie,’ arsenic we erstwhile knew it, is dead.”
Los Angeles Times
Tracy Brown
1. “Rebel Ridge”
2. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
3. “Mountainhead”
4. “The Gorge”
5. “Am I OK?””
“We each gripe astir this class each year, but I deliberation the toughest happening astir the TV movie contention successful the clip of streaming is the scope of projects it encompasses, from the much blockbuster-skewing ‘Rebel Ridge’ to the much firmly indie ‘Am I OK?’ And we each request to beryllium OK with that.”
Shadow and Act
Trey Mangum
1. “Rebel Ridge”
2. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
3. “Mountainhead”
4. “G20”
5. “The Gorge”
“‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ getting an Emmy motion would look justified, since it didn’t get a theatrical tally successful the U.S. It appears to beryllium a fastener — conscionable similar ‘Mountainhead,’ which is battling ‘Rebel Ridge’ to beryllium astatine the top.”
TV Guide
Matt Roush
1. “Mountainhead”
2. “Out of My Mind”
3. “Rebel Ridge”
4. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
5. “Am I OK?”
“In a traditionally meh field, HBO’s late-May introduction ‘Mountainhead’ feels similar a front-runner connected pedigree alone: written and directed by ‘Succession’s’ Jesse Armstrong, astir a gathering of toxic tech titans including Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith. This darkest of farces is besides frighteningly timely.”
Los Angeles Times
Glenn Whipp
1. “Rebel Ridge”
2. “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
3. “Out of My Mind”
4. “Mountainhead”
5. “The Gorge”
“For the archetypal clip successful what feels similar decades, you could marque an statement that the TV movie contenders are astatine slightest arsenic bully arsenic the constricted series. I don’t cognize astir you, but I’d rewatch the latest ‘Bridget Jones’ movie doubly earlier ever dipping into ‘Disclaimer’ again.”
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