Erick Massoto is a senior news writer and film critic for Collider. He specializes in thriller movies and TV, satire news shows and anime series.
The Big Picture Every once in a while, a movie finds its niche inside a streaming platform and ends up becoming a hit through word-of-mouth thanks to its subscribers. This time, the title that had fans riled up was Finestkind, a 2023 movie that stars Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones . The story centers around siblings who get involved with the Boston crime syndicate. Though it received a pretty low score on Rotten Tomatoes — 29% — the movie climbed all the way to #2 in the Paramount+ charts.
Despite its compelling premise, Finestkind failed to make an impression on the vast majority of critics. Collider's own Ross Bonaime called the movie a "bland Boston drama," and penned the script, writing that "motivations are nonsensical, the characters poorly defined, and the degradation of this narrative is mindless." Similarly, Robert Daniels from Indiewire called the experience "a messy ball of nonsensical threads and worse performances.
At the same time, it's not like Finestkind is a complete waste of streaming hours. Damon Wise from Deadline wrote that even though the two halves of the movie don't quite fit together, it's "an ambitious attempt to combine serious adult issues with satisfying thriller conventions."
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