{"id":2252997,"date":"2026-01-27T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252997"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:35:08","slug":"the-weight-review-ethan-hawke-carries-an-intermittently-exciting-if-sometimes-arduous-throwback-to-deliverance-era-action-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-weight-review-ethan-hawke-carries-an-intermittently-exciting-if-sometimes-arduous-throwback-to-deliverance-era-action-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Weight\u2019 Review: Ethan Hawke Carries an Intermittently Exciting, if Sometimes Arduous Throwback to \u2018Deliverance\u2019-Era Action Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ethan Hawke<\/a> is having a moment, the way fellow Newton<\/a> boy Matthew McConaughey<\/a> did a few years back. Onscreen since age 14 \u2014 yet taken for granted far too long \u2014 the undeniable talent behind those chiseled cheeks and snaggled teeth has been more visible than ever of late, finally earning Academy recognition for \u201cBlue Moon<\/a>,\u201d in which he took the biggest stretch of his career: playing short, balding Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart<\/a>. \u201cThe Weight<\/a>,\u201d which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival but feels like it could have been made in the 1970s, features a role that fits more neatly within Hawke<\/a>\u2019s wheelhouse \u2026 but that doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve seen him like this before.<\/p>\n

An old-fashioned, off-the-grid adventure story set during the Great Depression \u2014 a \u201cWages of Fear\u201d-like wilderness trek, as John Huston<\/a> or John Boorman<\/a> might have told it, involving the transport of four packs of heavy gold bars…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethan Hawke is having a moment, the way fellow Newton boy Matthew McConaughey did a few years back. Onscreen since age 14 \u2014 yet taken for granted far too long \u2014 the undeniable talent behind those chiseled cheeks and snaggled teeth has been more visible than ever of late, finally earning Academy recognition for \u201cBlue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2252997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018The-Weight-Review-Ethan-Hawke-Carries-an-Intermittently-Exciting-if.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252999,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252997\/revisions\/2252999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}