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The anxiously anticipated film adaptation of “Dear Evan Hansen” entirely misses the mark, serving up a cringeworthy film that makes headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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The drama-filled plotlines, nuanced humor and intricate relationships make up for the slow-moving pace and certainly keep audience members on their toes.
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Sometimes Zoom feels like its own language, and Morales is fairly fluent. There are the usual hiccups — glitching and audio fragmentation — which are easy enough to ignore when “Language Lessons” overflow with kindness.
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Even though it’s not the most polished, the film affirms the value in giving creative stories the opportunity to come to the screen, heralding a brighter future for cinematic adaptations of musicals.
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Accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and — as always — her brother-producer Finneas, Eilish pays tribute to both her hometown and the decades of musical icons that have come before her through a beautiful, hourlong sequential recital of the 16-track LP.
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Among other mental health struggles the movie hopes to address, “Dear Evan Hansen” highlights how grief can destroy a family while sparking revelations in one’s knowledge of themselves.
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Besides being a well-executed, riveting superhero movie, a huge factor in what makes “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” so amazing and necessary is the fact that it unapologetically tells an Asian and Asian American story.
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Hot on the heels of “Sound of Metal,” it’s only natural to worry that “Mogul Mowgli” will resemble the former, but director Bassam Tariq and Ahmed are quick to distinguish this film.
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In its entirety, the film is a subversion of everything its predecessors were and are — ultimately working to reshape the presence of the female character within the fairytale genre.
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Viewers will be hard-pressed to find an on-screen romance less appealing than that of “The Protégé,” which is shallow, half-baked, and much like the rest of the film, confusing.
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