While Onward begins as a story of bereavement, it soon turns to celebrating the payoffs of positive thinking.
Do we really need another film about underachieving white men with scruffy beards?
What makes for better television: a good crime procedural or an ambitious psychiatric drama?
Wilmer Valderrama and George Takei’s reaction shots are the only feeble sources of humor in this dramedy.
Sometimes the truth doesn’t set you free.
The film has an excellent pedigree, but when it poops it stinks of a Tim Allen movie.
Richard Linklater isn’t adept at seeing multiple narratives through to their various plausible conclusions.
Richard Linklater does an admirable job of shoehorning in as much of the sprawling nonfiction narrative as he can.
it’s very easy to imagine a better film with James St. James in the lead and Michael Alig in his periphery.