A cursory history lesson with no interest in probing the deeper or more complex implications of Mandela’s positions and their relationship to his country’s shifting landscape.
The First Grader is marked by moldy sentiments and even moldier filmmaking.
Eastwood’s dull Invictus receives a lackluster welcome to home video.
Throughout, stock plot tropes and moral messages are proffered with easy-to-read blandness.
Anthony Fabian treats his material with a respectful reserve that keeps events from toppling over into corny histrionics.
Fans of the film won't want to miss the opportunity to listen to the real-life subject of the film on the disc's commentary track.
The film reduces the atrocities committed in the African country to the stuff of a rote suspense thriller.