
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.
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| DCistPat PaduaWorks ...as something considerably less ambitious than [the] doorstopper novel Infinite Jest: a buddy movie about the difficulty to communicate. |
| New York PostKyle SmithThe End of the Tour is a five-day bender of a talk — a film that illuminates like few others the singular pleasure of shared discovery of one another’s sensibility. In an unassuming way, it’s a glory. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt’s ultimately a movie — one of the most rigorous and thoughtful I’ve seen — about the ethical and existential traps our fame-crazed culture sets for the talented and the mediocre alike. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenJames Ponsoldt's magnificent The End of the Tour gives us two guys talking, and the effect is breathtaking. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAt times the movie’s small canvas feels momentous. They’ve found the inner tensions in people’s presentations of themselves in a way that’s positively Wallace-like. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayImprobably, The End of the Tour doesn’t just sustain the audience’s interest in Wallace and Lipsky’s exchanges, arguments and moments of bonding, but invites us to care deeply about the men. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallThe End of the Tour asks viewers to lean in, listen well and be rewarded with an uncommonly intelligent and relatable movie experience. |
| Kansas City StarDavid FreseJason Segel is so good in "The End of the Tour" you can almost smell him. |
| CinemaBlendEric EisenbergYou'll be impressed by the approach; awed and spellbound by the philosophy; and immediately compelled to seek out more about the brilliant and enigmatic subject at its center. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA creative and engrossing film about two writers trying to determine what is important to each other. |