The Greatest
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings
- Summary:
- Director: Shana Feste
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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75The Greatest raises compelling questions about how parents continue on after the death of a child.
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First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made an uneven but often affecting film that requires its gifted cast to push hard against the script's schematic plotting to find moments of real emotion.
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50So the screenplay is a soap operatic mess, involving distractions, loose ends, and sheer carelessness.
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30Not even the skillful performances of its stars, Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan, playing the boy’s parents, can cover up the mysterious gaps in continuity of a screenplay whose thudding dialogue spells out every emotion while refusing to clarify many crucial plot details.
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