MadLaughter
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https://thefilmstage.com/reviews/the-book-of-henry-review-colin-trevorrow/
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-book-of-henry
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-book-of-henry-review-naomi-watts-1202465743/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/book-henry-1013737?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Maybe the title's hyperbolic, but Mike Sampson's a former critic, and I think now he's got a high position with Alamo Drafthouse in New York, and seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. This movie sounds wilder than Collateral Beauty, and possibly worse than the F4 movie that got Trank removed.
Watching The Book of Henry feels like being gaslit. You want to yell at the screen This is absurd! Henrys recorded instructions for Susan predict when shell turn the wrong way down the street! Is there going to be any acknowledgement of how insane this is?! while the movie calmly insists that this is all perfectly natural. That kind of rubbernecking-a-car-crash feeling is the only possible reason to recommend the film, if youre into that, for whatever reason. Going forward, Colin Trevorrow hopefully wont be put in charge of anything too impor- oh Jesus, thats right.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-book-of-henry
Schmaltzy, manipulative, and tonally schizophrenic, The Book of Henry is such a monumentally misguided venture that it ends up being oddly, if unintentionally, compelling. If not for Colin Trevorrow's bland, listless direction, it would be tempting to read the film as a parody of slushy Hollywood tear-jerkers, a dark satire that uses the uncannily vacuum-sealed mawkishness of a Hallmark Channel movie as an ironic backdrop for a twisted Hitchcockian thriller.
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-book-of-henry-review-naomi-watts-1202465743/
Theres the kind of bad movie that just sits there, unfolding with grimly predictable monotony. Then theres the kind where the badness expands and metastasizes, taking on a jaw-dropping life of its own, pushing through to ever-higher levels of garishness. The Book of Henry, directed by Colin Trevorrow from Gregg Hurwitzs script, is of the latter, youve-got-to-see-it-to-disbelieve-it variety.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/book-henry-1013737?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The preposterousness of Gregg Hurwitz's screenplay isn't enough to throw star Naomi Watts off her game, and the actor's sincere performance may suffice to keep a segment of the family-film demographic on board, barely. Another group, though, will find acceptance much harder: Those of us who've allowed ourselves to care about the latest Star Wars trilogy may be made fearful about the prospect of an Episode IX directed by Trevorrow. The garden-variety blockbuster lameness of his Jurassic World was one thing; after this near-catastrophe, can he really be trusted with the fate of the Jedi?
Maybe the title's hyperbolic, but Mike Sampson's a former critic, and I think now he's got a high position with Alamo Drafthouse in New York, and seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. This movie sounds wilder than Collateral Beauty, and possibly worse than the F4 movie that got Trank removed.