A Simple Favor
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray

Director: Paul Feig
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding
Plot: Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Disc Release Date: 18 December 2018
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all scores
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It's a great looking film and consequently a great looking presentation.
Hits demo standards often enough to consider it a winner for this release.
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The extras are pretty impressive.
The mystery works reasonably well, although it's frequently brought crashing back down to earth by the more whimsical elements.
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It looks gorgeous, as do its cast members.
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A Simple Favor is presented on 4K UHD courtesy of Lionsgate Films with a 2160p transfer in 2.00:1. I'll refer you to ourA Simple Favor Blu-ray review for some information on a kind of strange discrepancy...
There are a ton of really fun (often French) source cues utilized throughout A Simple Favor, something that opens up the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track quite winningly. The film opens with an enjoyably raucous...
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Both the 1080p and 2160p discs in this package share the same bountiful supply of bonus features: Special Features Introduction by Paul Feig (1080p; 00:17) is a completely pointless excercise, kind of...
Back in the days of print media, those of us who worked as reviewers at newspapers and/or magazines knew we were probably dealing with a less than completely successful film release if we weren't granted...
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Despite its sometimes head scratching omissions and/or lack of logic, I actually enjoyed huge swaths of A Simple FavorA Simple Favor comes Recommended....