{"id":1954551,"date":"2025-08-11T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1954551"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:32:45","slug":"sydney-sweeneys-new-movie-is-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sydney-sweeneys-new-movie-is-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Sweeney\u2019s new movie is terrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109473393.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title subsection-heading-semi\">\n\t\t\tAMERICANA\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"rating\">\n<div 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Rated R (violence, language throughout and some sexual references). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Who cares about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/31\/lifestyle\/american-eagles-ad-with-sydney-sweeney-spark-debate-race-and-beauty-standards\/\">a jeans ad<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Sweeney\u2019s real controversy is the bell-bottom-of-the-barrel quality of her new movie, \u201cAmericana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newish, that is. The wannabe Western crime drama premiered at South By Southwest back in March 2023 and is only now skulking into some theaters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a violently annoying and annoyingly violent ensemble piece speckled with \u201clook how wacky we are!\u201d characters that are impossible to put up with; a copycat Coen Brothers yarn with the depth of a tortilla.<\/p>\n<p>The cast breakdown reads like a parody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sweeney plays Penny Jo, a shy South Dakota waitress who dreams of becoming a country singer but has a stammer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are supposed to accept that the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/08\/entertainment\/is-sydney-sweeney-secretly-in-devil-wears-prada-2\/\">constantly photographed Sweeney<\/a> is a wallflower nobody pays any attention to. The actress\u2019 fake speech impediment, meanwhile, comes off both rehearsed and not nearly rehearsed enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sydney Sweeney stars in \u201cAmericana.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Ursula Coyote<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Penny Jo finally gets some human face time with a creepy loser. That\u2019s Lefty (Paul Walter Hauser), a breathy schlub who has proposed to four women this year alone. Despite his name, he\u2019s right-handed and tells everybody that.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a little boy named Cal (Gavin Maddox Bergman), who insists he\u2019s the reincarnation of Sitting Bull, and shoots his mom\u2019s abusive boyfriend, Dillon (Eric Dane), with an arrow.<\/p>\n<p>He links up with Native American Ghost Eye (Zahn McClarnon), the leader of a gun-totin\u2019 group that protects their tribal legacy with rifles. He says he took his moniker from the Forest Whitaker indie \u201cGhost Dog.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lefty (Paul Walter Hauser) falls for Penny Jo (Sydney Sweeney.)  <span class=\"credit\">Ursula Coyote<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And spitfire Mandy (Halsey) has escaped from her father\u2019s Warren Jeffs-type sex cult.<\/p>\n<p>And on and on. I was fed up with \u201cAmericana\u201d by minute 10, and the succeeding 100 did nothing to change my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody in this quirk brigade is trying to get their hands on a rare Native American ghost shirt that\u2019s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost Eye wants the garment for its historic significance. The rest are hungry for the cash. At one point, a group of pretentious rich snobs displays it in their living room. The points writer-director Tony Tost makes are painfully obvious.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Eric Dane\u2019s Dillon wants to get his hands on a rare Native American ghost shirt. <span class=\"credit\">Ursula Coyote<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Based on her prominence on the poster, you\u2019d think so-so Sweeney is the lead. But the roles are equal in size \u2014 and irritation \u2014 and if there is any focal point, it\u2019s Halsey\u2019s Mandy, who has a meatier arc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though, spoiler alert, Penny Jo finds her voice at the end, as our eyes remain desert dry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tost bets that eccentricities will distract from his meandering, repetitive story that amounts to an object changing hands a few times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under more assured direction, the shoddy script could have amounted to something mediocre at least. When the Coens or Quentin Tarantino amp up the weird in their dark depictions of a dusty America, they do so with unsettling style and an enticingly skewed vision of reality to match.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An unlikely pair is Cal and Ghost Eye (Zahn McClarnon).  <span class=\"credit\">Ursula Coyote<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, they, unlike Tost, also write strong screenplays.<\/p>\n<p>His \u201cAmericana\u201d is lifelessly visualized. Eye candy? Eye toothpaste.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pair pat-on-the-back lofty themes with bland imagery and artificially kooky characters speaking hokey, unconvincing dialogue, and you get a great big bore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericana\u201d ends on a bloody standoff, an emotional death and a heartfelt reunion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all as engrossing and moving as a tumbleweed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review AMERICANA Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (violence, language throughout and some sexual references). In theaters. Who cares about a jeans ad? Sydney Sweeney\u2019s real controversy is the bell-bottom-of-the-barrel quality of her new movie, \u201cAmericana.\u201d Newish, that is. 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