A brilliantly crafted and intelligent biopic, less about Wallace and more about capturing the essence of an era.
Full review by J. Carlos Menjivar on Popzara
EW
Believe it or not, there was a time when highbrow authors were seen as celebrities. Back in the ’60s, John Cheever, James Baldwin, and J.D. Salinger all appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Meanwhile, novelists like Truman Capote and Gore Vidal became fixtures on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show couch, dropping bons mots on the masses. But somewhere along the way, serious writers of Big Ideas were relegated to the pop culture remainder bin—for the most part, they were no longer meant to be seen or heard, just read.
IGN
The End of the Tour takes an interesting approach to telling the story of David Foster Wallace by structuring it around the author's five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in 1996. The film may be self-indulgent at times, but stars Segel and Eisenberg anchor the proceedings with just the right amount of emotion and complexity.
Deadline
One of the breakout hits of the Sundance Film Festival, The End Of The Tour begins hitting theaters Friday, and as I say in my video review (click the link above), it is a literate and rewarding look at something that — on the surface at least — would not seem very cinematic. Based on a bestselling book by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the movie recounts the five-day 1996 interview session Lipsky conducted with acclaimed author David Foster Wallace, whose massive 1000-plus-page novel, Infinite Jest, had just been released.
I actually have Infinite Jest on my Kindle but haven't gotten around to reading it.
I'm very interested in checking this one out.
