David Gordon Green’s newest attempt to raise franchise hell results in a disjointed mess.
Flag Day is little more than a near-two-hour montage of tear-streaked faces melodramatically shouting at each other.
On the whole, the film is an unvarnished reflection of the ugliness of American attitudes toward assimilation.
The miniseries at least gives ample space for Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams to richly inhabit their characters.
The dialogue is at once easygoing in its candor and rigidly on-message about the corrosive nature of lies.
Much like the character of Edward Bloom, Big Fish tries too hard to convince us that it’s special.
The second recent release that aims to channel great, time-honored storytelling without being able to tell a great story.
Bereft of both spiritual and narrative spark, the loss-of-faith drama Higher Ground gets stuck in the valley of the shadow of snark.