Bad Times at the El Royale
In a hotel located in a remote area on the California-Nevada border. Seven strangers met at a hotel called Royal Tahoe. Each of these has a buried secret, where, A cleric, a soul singer, a street vendor, two sisters, the director and the mysterious Billy Lee - on a fateful night that looks the worst in their lives.
28 August 1991, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
20 March 1989, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
13 January 1938, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 January 1969, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA
15 June 1982, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
29 April 1959, San Antonio, Texas, USA
4 December 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 October 1989, Austin, Texas, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
2 November 1981, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 15, 2018
Overlong and disappointing depraved retro.
October 12, 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale starts with a lot of promise and a full head of steam; even half-way through I was engaged. But the movie eventually careens off the track.
October 12, 2018
An unfortunately apt demonstration of what can befall a clever filmmaker who gets too clever.
October 14, 2018
an engrossing thriller punctuated with gunshot blasts and tidy conundrums about both right and wrong and about innocence and guilt.
October 15, 2018
Though imperfect, is saved by its magnificent first two-thirds, its A-list cast that stuns and shares the spotlight in rounds, its infectious selection of songs sung to divine perfection.
October 15, 2018
This Irwin-Allen-sized B-movie mostly works thanks to Goddard's knack for nesting-doll-style narrative compartmentalization and his talent for bringing out the best in his uniformly strong ensemble cast...
October 12, 2018
Taking turns in the spotlight, everyone in the cast is outstanding.
October 15, 2018
An imperfect movie, and one impossible to pigeonhole, but it offers more delights than many bigger films.
October 14, 2018
In its better moments, this studio oddity is a tense thriller, at its worst, draggy and self-indulgent.
October 12, 2018
Bad Times at the El Royale isn't an event. But I was never too bored.
October 14, 2018
Somewhere along the line... Goddard loses his own plot and succumbs to sentiment.
October 12, 2018
Careful framing, mysterious characters, slow builds, violent surprises, and a dynamite parade of very nearly on-the-nose songs from the mid- to late-1960s
