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What might have amounted to mere melodrama — and it is undeniably over-the-top at times — is actually an involving and sometimes moving drama, its slow build-up vindicated by the
Producer (12 Years a Slave, Brokeback Mountain) turned Director (Love & Mercy) Bill Pohlad tells this true story of a family who once dreamed big of making it in the
While the use of sound here is the hook, the success of the film rests almost purely on simple, old-fashioned filmmaking skill, and that's a trick Krasinksi has down cold.
Wonder expertly aims for the heart at every turn.
...despite evoking the period through great design work, the film just doesn’t live up to the sum of its parts.