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Seduced by a Hostage-Taker

Ethan Hawke is the best thing about "Stockholm," but the moment he strides into a bank things begin going haywire. With strained comedy, unearned sobriety and Bob Dylan on the soundtrack, the movie revisits the 1973 Swedish robbery that inspired the coinage Stockholm syndrome. That term is often used when hostages - or victims of any kind, including of relationships and of long novels - develop an identification with their captors. Hawke plays Lars, the robbery's would-be mastermind, who appears too ridiculous to be persuasively dangerous but who is also meant to be somehow irresistible. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3511 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 10 aprile 2019