Lion
Crit
Well, that was an odd film: determined to warm your heart, but determined also to earn the emotion, so much so that it rather shortchanges what seems as if it ought to be the central questions: what is family, where does one family end and another begin, and how is "family" earned?I hate it when a reviewer complains that the film is not the one he would have made from the same material, and I apologize for being that guy, but I think I'd have been more on board had we had less of Saroo as the admittedly adorable and admittedly dealt a crap hand of cards young Sunny Pawar and more as the young adult played by Dev Patel. Specifically, we don't get enough of the privileged Tasmanian adoptee Saroo before his madeleine moment to make much sense of the obsession that moment spurs. Clearly, there's a lot more of that mostly metaphorical journey (enabled by Google Earth) than we see, but we don't miss a click of young Saroo's literal journeys. The film needs both less and more.
Trailers
- Gold--Matthew McConaughey prospecting in Indonesia.
- Julieta--¡Sí, sí, sin cuestión!
- The Last Word--Shirley Maclaine as a cranky old bat who wants a good obit.
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