Film Reviews by MC

I'm amazed this film won so many Oscars. I thought Madison Mikey was very good in the main role, but overall after a fun and promising start the film became baggy and tedious. There is an awful drawn out section in the middle with forced humour and cod 'comedy' gangsters where they search for the boy. It's a fairly long film for such a light story, and could have been heavily trimmed. I kept wondering and hoping this was going somewhere, but it didn't apart from a tiny hint at something deeper at the end. The dialogue was poor and Madison did her best with some rather irritating and repetitive lines. Edelshteyn was excellent and very believable as the hyperactive, spoilt gangster's kid, and the film took a bit of a dive when his character virtually disappeared after the start of the film.

Pretty tedious! Not sure how it developed, but, unusually for me, I hadn't the patience to give it time. Gave up after about twenty minutes. Remarkably, it managed to seem both twee, and pretentious.

Took a little while for the film to work it's magic on me, but became totally immersed in the world it depicted. A unique experience, and so well accomplished and performed, particularly by Eleanor Tomlinson as the barmaid.

Interesting story based in truth. Treatment here was VERY slow and oversimplified. Picks up a bit in the second half, but could have been half the length. Acting was a bit stilted and dialogue quite corny.