- Starring: Ben Rosenfield, Frank Bello, Imogen Poots, Norbert Leo Butz, Penn Badgley, William Sadler
- Summary:
- Director: Daniel Algrant
- Genre(s): Drama
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 1 out of 15
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91Penn Badgley saunters around with an air of spooky self-possession, and he does a dead-on impersonation of Buckley's high-vibrato wail.
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75Algrant’s film — which he co-wrote with Emma Sheanshang and David Brendel — is really about Tim Buckley’s son, Jeff, an equally adventurous rocker whose fame ultimately eclipsed his father’s, though he too died young.
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75Badgley, best known for playing "lonely boy" Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl, is a revelation. He wears his role like a second skin.
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60The film articulates this dimension of the story, regrettably, in little more than biopic platitudes and daddy-issue clichés...But it's not all bad. Badgley delivers a nuanced performance of such ferocity he almost singlehandedly makes a conventional film seem loose and improvisatory.
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58There is no doubt that Greetings From Tim Buckley is respectful, and thanks to Badgley and Rosenfield, does justice to both singers. But the film never quite connects father and son as each sharing the common bond of extraordinary talent or even similar personal woes.
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50It’s sweet, sentimental, almost inevitably touching if not especially persuasive, brushing against the thorns in each man’s life without drawing blood.
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May 2, 201320For all the star’s efforts, the movie itself ends up little more than an exploitation item, a sad place-holder until the real thing comes along.
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