Synopsis
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
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Cast
- Tom HollandCherry
- Ciara BravoEmily
- Jack ReynorPills & Coke
- Michael RispoliTommy
- Jeffrey WahlbergJimenez
- Forrest GoodluckJames Lightfoot
- Michael GandolfiniCousin Joe
- Suhail DabbachOld Man Fatook
- Daniel R. HillBlack
- Fionn O'SheaArnold
Recommendations
- 80
Total Film
Thankfully, the Russos imbue the often grim proceedings with the right amounts of light and levity to keep you gripped. Meanwhile, the subversive humor peppered throughout lends an anarchic energy that entertains as well as it moves. - 60
Screen Rant
Cherry is a fairly standard drama that hits the expected beats, but is still elevated by Holland's strong lead performance. - 60
Empire
There’s much to chew on in Cherry, and not all of it works. But a never-better performance from Tom Holland, and some bold directorial choices, make it a mostly compelling watch. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
For all the frenzied action of the final scenes though, there's an airless, overwrought sense of diminishing returns — and that's a comedown we've seen too many times before. - 50
Movie Nation
But it’s like they’re at a loss about what to do with real people, real situations, real traumas or emotions without comic book men and women in tights and lots and lots of effects. - 50
TheWrap
From its facile depiction of the role of incarceration in the rehab process — addiction is a health issue that we keep mistakenly treating as a criminal issue — to the under-writing of the characters, what should be a harrowing drama instead comes off as an anti-drug pamphlet. - 33
Consequence
There’s a fundamental disconnect between Cherry’s cynicism and Holland’s innate naivete that just makes the whole affair feel wrong somehow, not to mention crushingly long at nearly two and a half hours. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Walker's story no doubt is grounded in a very real milieu that reflects the grim existence of countless Americans returning from active duty to a country blighted by economic downturn, shrinking opportunity and substance abuse. But the only reality Cherry reflects with numbing insistence is that of co-directors getting high on their own high style.
