Outcome review – Keanu Reeves sends himself up in Jonah Hill’s Hollywood satire

Hill writes and directs in-joke and insider-laden spoof about a nice-guy mega-star actor hiding a drug addiction, whose career is threatened when he’s blackmailed over a compromising video The famous paparazzi shot of Keanu Reeves sitting alone on a bench spawned “sad Keanu”; this comedy gives us “sad asshole Keanu”. It’s a Hollywood in-joke, in a film written and directed by Jonah Hill who has persuaded his actor mates to appear, including Reeves, who plays Reef Hawk, one of the most well-kn...

By Cath Clarke

‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Is Loved by Everybody and Nobody in Jonah Hill’s Offputting Industry Satire

If the bona fide movie star really is a dying breed — as countless doomsaying editorials in this age of franchise-led studio cinema insist is the case — films like “Outcome” won’t encourage many aspiring actors to repopulate the firmament. Arriving mere months after “Jay Kelly,” Noah Baumbach’s self-pitying ode to the nobly receding likes […]

By Guy Lodge

‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Brings Sincerity to Jonah Hill’s Otherwise Glibly Unfunny Comedy About a Hollywood Star in Crisis

Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer and Martin Scorsese also appear in the Apple TV inside-showbiz satire, in which an extortion scheme prompts a fretful apology tour.

By David Rooney

‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Gets To Play A Movie Star About To Get Canceled In Jonah Hill’s Uneven Dark Hollywood Satire

I always look forward to seeing what Jonah Hill comes up with in whatever movie he is cast. A uniquely funny and true original, he takes what could be stereotypes and turns them on their heads, but for the past five years or so he has not had much of a presence on screen, instead […]

By Pete Hammond

Outcome Review

Outcome review: Keanu Reeves stars in a Jonah Hill-directed Apple TV release that feels destined to become yet another mostly-forgotten streaming movie despite the big names involved.

By Arnold T. Blumberg

Jonah Hill & Olivia Millar Privately Married, Welcomed Baby No. 2

Jonah Hill has made a jump in his personal life. Nearly three years after the 21 Jump Street star welcomed his first baby with Olivia Millar, the couple have privately  married and welcomed their...

Outcome Review: Jonah Hill’s Hollywood Satire Misuses Keanu Reeves

Though it connects in moments, writer-director Jonah Hill’s new movie doesn’t push its premise far enough to deliver as either comedy or drama.

By Alex Harrison