Maggie’s Plan (2016): A Change of Heart

Though she would prefer to fall in love, Maggie feels more ready to seek out parenthood more immediately. Identifying a local entrepreneur named Guy, she is completely prepared to use his material to become a mother. She did not predict finding John, a professor at The New College. She develops an infatuation with him and eventually falls in love, even though he was already married to another professor with quite the reputation. She finds her way into a new marriage, with their 3-year-old daughter fulfilling her dreams. As the relationship continues, she begins to regret her decision and believes that John may have been better off with his ex-wife.

Conflicting Personalities/Partnerships: Though John and Georgette may have seemed to be total opposites, their marriage may have worked better than outsiders believed. Maggie’s encounters with John appeared to fit with no complication, but she figured out that something was off after they got married. These conflicts are part of the unpredictability of love, as it seemed that they each changed their behaviors based on how they were paired off with each other. John, in particular, had personality changes based on the woman to which he was married. With Georgette, he took a more supportive role based on her drive as an academic. With Maggie, he became dependent and less passionate.

Plans versus Fate: One of Maggie’s biggest challenges was her need for control. While wanting a child is a natural element, seeking out science to speed up the process is less so. She set up her opportunity to conceive without a committed relationship, but started to fall in love with John and created conflicts within herself about what she wanted. When the marriage started to fail, she tried to take control again. While her plan to meddle with Georgette’s and John’s love lives may have worked out the way she wanted, she did not anticipate Guy showing back up.

Greta’s Quirky Life: Greta Gerwig seems to play a typical type of character in her films. She is extremely intelligent but also seems to play into a stereotype of being lost in what she wants out of love. This was mirrored in her other films like Frances Ha  and Mistress America. In some cases, her romance stories are flighty, quirky, and entertaining; while in others, her love stories are somewhat maddening through their extramarital themes.

Final Verdict: While her dialogue and thought process was entertaining, Maggie’s Plan is a bit of a mixed bag. The themes can be challenging since they highlight infidelity mixed with control issues. At the same time, it is intriguing to watch how the relationships develop through the process of falling in and out of love.

Dan’s Rating: 3.0/5

Captain Fantastic (2016): Prepared for Everything Except the Outside World

Life for the Cash family is a little unlike most of the world around them. Ben and Leslie made a choice to take their children into the wilderness and live off of the grid. When Leslie becomes sick and requires greater medical attention, she returns home to her parents. Word eventually makes it back to Ben and the children that she has passed. Ben receives specific instructions from Leslie’s father not to attend the funeral, but he struggles with not being able to give a proper goodbye to his love. With the help and motivation from his children, they set out on a journey to crash the funeral and ensure to fulfill Leslie’s final wishes.

Off the Grid, Not Uncivilized: While the Cash family chose to live outside of conventional conditions, their family certainly had some examples to help any other family struggling to succeed. While Ben’s children followed his instructions and challenging physical and mental regime, he also encouraged their ability to think more critically and challenge his perspective if they had the words to do so. Both parents encouraged their children to be highly intellectual, honest, and critically-minded from a young age. This was best exemplified when staying with family on the way to the funeral, when Ben proved that his children were more knowledgeable about US politics than other children even several years older than his.

Clash of Families: The eccentric nature of the Cash family was not lost on his wife’s family. His father-in-law wanted nothing to do with him and even conspired to take the kids away, citing it was in their best interest to return to a more “normal” lifestyle. When they stayed with their extended family, the dinner conversation became a true battle, as Ben sugar-coated none of the details about his wife’s death or made any apologies for the knowledge and behavior of his children while Dave and Harper clearly tried to shelter their kids from the emotional challenges of the real world. Even within the Cash family, Rellian struggled to understand why the family had to behave so strangely compared to the rest of the world around them.

Heartfelt Roller Coaster: While it initially appeared that Ben was a relatively emotionless leader of his family with a greater focus on physical and mental growth than emotional intelligence, the level to which he cared for his family was always clear. Watching the children deal with the death of their mother to suicide was heartbreaking, with some experiencing strong sadness and Rellian experiencing strong blaming and anger. When confronted with a battle to keep his kids, Ben love for his children became even more clear. The filmmakers made the right choice picking a nontraditional song to turn into a life celebration ballad sung in a folksy way.

Final Verdict: Truly one of the best films of the year so far, Captain Fantastic included some of the best acting from child actors, a strong performance from Viggo Mortensen, and a deeply touching storyline that easily pulled at the heart strings. The children are endearing and the conflict between Ben and his extended family was intense. This is a must-see.

Dan’s Rating: 4.5/5

Infinitely Polar Bear (2015): What It Takes to Keep a Family Together

After suffering a manic-depressive breakdown, Cam Stuart tries to reconnect with his family. Worried about their financial status, Maggie decides that she needs to go get her MBA and find a job to help support them. With no other solution in sight, she convinces Cam to find structure for himself by taking care of their girls. At times, everything seems to be smooth and loving. When everything is not calm, Cam feels at war with his girls, himself, and the world around him. Although she fears for their future, Maggie continues to press through her career and hopes for the best for her daughters.

Honesty & Mental Health: One of the truly amazing pieces of this film was the acting of Mark Ruffalo. Always diving full-on into his roles, he portrayed the variety and the intensity of someone struggling with their manic and depressive swings. At its greatest, he lost control in front of and at his own daughters, often failing to recognize how abusive his behavior appeared. Ruffalo appeared out of control in those most providing the realism this film truly needed.

Reversing Gender Roles: While it is still looked upon as abnormal for women to serve as the breadwinners in a heterosexual marriage while the men serve as stay-at-home parents, there were several moments where the film took a chance to point out the stigma associated with this different family structure. David was challenged by receiving a compliment for doing something that most men would never consider doing (staying at home with the kids). He also felt like an outcast from the other stay-at-home parents, as the only man doing this in his building. For Maggie, she was immediately discriminated against for having children while pursuing a career, even after expressing the independence of her girls and her won ability to work long hours.

Based on True Events: Director Maya Forbes was not just familiar with the story but rather she lived it. Having experienced the manic episodes of her father, she had a unique perspective to express what it was like growing up in an unstable environment. She even cast her own daughter to play her younger self as a child trying to live with and understand the challenges her father presented.

Final Verdict: While imbalanced like Cam Stuart, the film portrays so much heart and growth to maintain intrigue from start to finish. It also helps to have such a phenomenal actor like Mark Ruffalo and a supporting cast including Zoe Saldana’s more tempered performance and the young actresses (Imogene Wolodarsky and Ashley Aufderheide) big personalities.

Dan’s Rating: 4.0/5

The Lobster (2016): An Unconventional Love Story

Being single is no longer an acceptable practice in society. If not partnered by a certain age, single people are taken to a special hotel to find a mate in 45 days or be turned into the animal of their choice. For David, his time to discover love is now. After his brother failed to meet the deadline, he wishes to avoid the same fate and sets his sights on three different women. Befriending a couple of other men, they discover their matchmaking will not be that easy. Forcing partnerships seems like the only way to avoid their animalistic fate, but it still seems more preferable than being hunted the wild as a single person.

Sterilized Romance: While the hotel was focused on helping people find an ideal mate, the partnering process had been stripped down to seemingly practical methods. Partners with similar physical ailments were matched together because they could sympathize with each other. Guests at the hotel received regular reminders of why the single life was dangerous or wrong. This theme carried throughout the film, as even the slightly more life-filled city seemed a little too serene and calm, with police ensuring that no one was ever left standing around alone.

It’s Truly Tough to Be Single: While the growing sense of dread of running out of time was strong enough at the hotel, life as a single person outside of it was even more devastating. Living in the woods (like animals), single people had to come to grips with choosing to break away from the new societal norms and vow to remain single at all costs. This also meant they were hunted by the guests of the hotel (like animals). Getting captured was the end of their lives, which led them to come to terms with the possibility of death coming for them at any time.

The Evolution of the Belief in Love: One of the truly amazing elements of this film is the way it explores the evolution of David’s understanding of love. It was a life or death situation at the beginning, where even his choice in animal focused on the possibility of a long life. When he became an outcast at the hotel and ended up with the single people in the woods, he locked eyes with the Short-Sighted Woman and finds an instant attraction. This eventually leads to both of them rediscovering what it means to truly care for someone. Feeling like the only two who are out of place, they devise a plan to try to run off and start a life together.

Final Verdict: This is truly a strange one. The acting is on point and the concept is complex and meaningful, but it is somewhat hurt by how consistently drab the overall environment feels. Even in the moments where true love starts to seep in, the world around the main characters feel overly grey. Much of this can be overlooked but it still feels a little too niche for a more general audience.

Dan’s Verdict: 3.5/5

The Danish Girl (2015): Have the Courage to Love Yourself

Gerda and Einar Wegener were truly a pair of artists in love. While Einar had already achieved a sense of fame, Gerda was still searching for true recognition of her talent. When she gets the idea one day to have her husband pose for a painting in women’s clothing, the finished work becomes a sensation overnight. While Gerda enjoys playing a game with her husband across gender lines, Einar begins to see himself transitioning into a woman, becoming more comfortable in his feminine persona. As she becomes Lili Elbe in mind and spirit, she chooses to be one of the first male-to-female sex reassignment patients.

Groundbreaking Pioneer: Lili Elbe was a woman by gender far before she underwent surgery, but her story brings to light the fluidity of gender. As Einar, he loved his wife dearly. They had a romance that could not be mistaken for anything else. While there may have been feelings of dissonance in his identity, it was not until the painting that he truly began to explore them. While Gerda was playing a game at first, she quickly realized that something was different about her husband. They never stopped loving each other, but their love was no longer the simple, traditional love of a man and a woman. Their love was transcendent of that definition and personified itself in how she stuck by him even as their romantic love faded with his transition.

Oscar-Worthy Performances: Most of the film was focused on two characters. For Eddie Redmayne’s Einar/Lili, there was a femininity he portrayed throughout the film that fit perfectly for the story. He exemplified feminine qualities of grace of movement and a sense of demure. Just as stunning was the supporting performance provided by Alicia Vikander. 2015 was a huge year for her, as she also starred in the quirky drama Ex Machina. Being in the position of losing your husband through gender transition is something that cannot be easy on either side. There is a loss or redefinition of identity of self and of being part of a pair that Alicia portrayed with stunning grace and kindness.

Uneven Story About Transformation: One of the things that this film is unable to boast is the development of its story. While the acting is phenomenal by its male and female leads, the storytelling keeps an almost quiet, shy tone, failing to explore the depth of the identity to the extent it could. There was little inner dialogue that could be determined from the relationship between Gerda and Einar/Lili, but rather focusing on some simple dialogue and non-verbal acting. Including the additional story about Gerda’s reconnection with childhood friend, Hans Axgil (Matthias Schoenaerts), seemed to distract from one of the most important times of the transformation into Lili. Making the decision to get the surgery seemed like something that was rushed at the end of a story that had been elongated up to that point.

Final Verdict: While the screenplay may not have been the strongest of last year, the acting in the film was definitely toward the top. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander were truly stunning in their roles and transformations as a couple. The topic is also quite timely, as politically there are plenty of questions about society’s acceptance of the transgender community.

Dan’s Rating: 3.5/5

The Age of Adaline (2015): Love is Timeless

Adaline Bowman, a woman born in 1908, met with an unfortunate accident at the age of 29. After careening off of the road and getting submerged underwater, a magical collection of events saved her life but also took away her body’s natural ability to age. Stuck at the age of 29, she attempted to some time to live normally, but her lack of aging eventually caught up to her. Permanently choosing to stay hidden from attention, she leaves behind her daughter and starts life anew over and over again. In present day, she is working in a library when a young philanthropist challenges her ability to stay hidden from attention. Unwilling to let go of his mystery woman, she slowly lets her guard down and leaves herself open to a true dilemma of secrecy versus love.

Review: Although the narration was a bit odd at times, the overall story was truly an intriguing one. Lee Toland Krieger displayed both the pseudo-science and the dramatic love story woven together through Adeline’s life. Blake Lively (Adaline) seemed a bit too detached at times, but her character was one who avoided attention as much as possible. Her performance can also be viewed in another light, one that recognizes that her mind had continued to age to a point of true wisdom and sophistication more closely matching her true age versus her physical appearance. Michiel Huisman (Ellis Jones) was truly a likable love interest. Between his persistence, creativity, and adoration, he solidified himself as a strong representation of the thing Adaline believed she could never achieve. Harrison Ford (William Jones) was a bit rough around the edges but filled his part as the catalyst for Adaline’s inner turmoil.

In a story that attempted to use science to explain the extraordinary, it never drew the focus away from the more interesting challenge of the secrecy of her true story. The dance which Adaline and Ellis engage in was truly magical, at least when she was not overcompensating for keeping her true self hidden. The background was interesting to create a clearer picture of how she established her present day style of living, but the true drama began the moment she decided to join Ellis for his parents’ anniversary. Confronted by William, a love from her past, she fights to avoid attention from William while also battling internally with how to potentially reveal herself to Ellis.

This is a film that was intriguing but missed a bit on the pacing and overall tone of the storytelling. While Blake’s portrayal can be explained through the length of time her character had been alive, there was an unnatural way that she carried herself that detracted a bit from the emotional material that could have been displayed.

Dan’s Rating: 3.0/5

The Theory of Everything (2014): The Incredible Story of Jane and Stephen Hawking

As a doctoral student at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking is ahead of his peers with his studies, but he was still yet to define his research. After meeting and starting a budding romance with Jane, an incident on the quad forces him to go to in for medical testing. Learning of his diagnosis of early-onset ALS, he initially detaches from everyone until the love of Jane brings him out of the darkness. Committing to him regardless of the illness, Jane and Stephen get married. Stephen finally begins to settle in on his official research of cosmological physics, gaining great attention and respect for his work. As the years progress, Stephen continues to rise academically while his condition continues to deteriorate, forcing him to take some creative measures to stay active and engaged. While stress continues to pile on their relationship, Jane and Stephen have a seemingly storybook romance that bursts out of his medical challenges.

Reaction: The story of Stephen Hawking has been much more than just his research or his illness alone. The love between him and Jane was something that defied logic, with her strength and his inner drive allowing them to last together for so many years despite the illness attempting to drive a wedge between them. This relationship exhibited resilience and resolve to degrees that most would fail to realize.

To create the foundation for the story, great acting was needed to be successful. Eddie Redmayne (Stephen) needed to exhibit an unmistakable charm and slowly be able to maintain that charm without the ability to verbally speak or move. With his positive glow and lust for knowledge, Redmayne was able to bring Hawking’s past to life. As the illness progressed through the story, his ability to transform his acting style was truly a sight to see. Just as impressive was the performance by Felicity Jones (Jane). Although her character was more stable throughout the film, she was able to elicit compassion for her resolve and patience through her love of Stephen.

The depth of the story brought to life the rest of the life and challenges of Stephen Hawking. Since most people would know him for the illness at its full effect and for his work in cosmological physics, there would be less knowledge of his life with Jane, the progression of the disease, and the affair with his speech therapist. Providing this fuller account of his life made his experience more understandable and relatable, while still maintaining high respect for his accomplishments.

While this story is ultimately a biography of his love story, it will pull the movie-goer in and just simply wow you with the life of Stephen Hawking.

Dan’s Rating: 4.5/5

The Fault in Our Stars (2014): One Sick Love Story

Having contracted cancer at a young age, Hazel feels strong disdain for the state of her life. She has not given up on living but only continues to maintain her activities for the sake of her parents. When attending her cancer support group meeting one day, she runs into Gus, a cancer survivor who lost his leg in the fight. While she notices him, Gus is completely infatuated with getting to know her. The two start a friendship that begins to challenge Hazel to change her attitude toward her situation. They share in the words of her favorite author, so Gus finds a way to use his “dying wish” to fly them to Amsterdam to meet him. Before they can take a trip, a tragedy occurs that almost prevents them from living her dream. The journey pushes their romance to the limit, as Hazel continues to try to keep enough distance from Gus to prevent them from falling in love with each other. As their relationship skyrockets, their star-crossed dreams seem ripe for tragedy to befall their love.

Starring: Shailene Woodley (Hazel), Ansel Elgort (Gus), Nat Wolff (Isaac), Laura Dern (Frannie), Sam Trammell (Michael), Willem Dafoe (Van Houten), Lotte Verbeek (Lidewij), Ana Dela Cruz (Dr. Maria), Randy Kovitz (Dr. Simmons), David Whalen (Gus’s Dad), Milica Govich (Gus’s Mom)

Teenage romance can be a tough genre to produce exceptional acting, but this film broke that mold. Woodley’s complex representation of a cancer patient produced an immediate connection with her plight and with the romance as she succumbed to the allure of her energetic, positive admirer. Throughout the film, her heavy breathing and challenges with physical activity made her believable as suffering through her character’s medical challenges. Elgort is similarly impressive in his strong positivity, but loses just a little momentum toward the end of the film (even though the vulnerability was very impressive). Dafoe was a surprise as well, though his character can be a little tough to stomach from his first appearance.

Adapting John Green’s successful novel, this film quickly entraps its viewers in the roller coaster ride of its leading, star-crossed lovers. Hazel’s cancer was a significant crutch in her life, even with the love and support of her parents and her support group. She had been lucky to be alive after falling deathly ill and nearly succumbing to the cancer. Her chance meeting with Gus was fate and the push she needed to find a reason to live again. Having spent so much time reading and re-reading the same book by Van Houten, Gus was a breath of fresh air in her sullen existence. While she continued to be afraid of letting him get too close, she eventually let him into her heart, as Gus continuously surprised her with gifts. Their trip to Amsterdam solidified that love, even with the disappointment with their original intention for making the trip. Unfortunately, Gus’s news at the end of the trip significantly changed their commitment, as cancer once again put a strain on how much longer they had together.

Although the cancer survival and the love between the two protagonists are the foci of the story, the metaphor of the frailty of life and the meaning of choice are just a prevalent. Hazel is introduced as making the choice to lack hope for her future. Sucked into a book that she described as the only thing that seemed to understand her plight, she was choosing to hide in the text to avoid the idea of disappointment. Gus’s relentless positivity and desire to be with her made Hazel uncomfortable, as it forced her to think about an actual future while struggling with an inevitable death from an unpredictable illness. She continued to keep him at a distance, comparing herself to grenade that will devastate everything in its blast radius. While they spend some unforgettable days in Amsterdam, it was not until Gus befell a relapse that Hazel let herself say the words “I love you.” The entire film gave the impression that Hazel was the one to eventually fall to her cancer, but her love for Gus left her vulnerable to suffering a different sort of fate, heartbroken by outlasting her true love.

This film is near perfect in its ability to enhance the concept of a teen drama/love story while giving a voice to the experience cancer patients/survivors and their loved ones. It is near impossible to walk away from this one with dry eyes, but that is what makes it great!

Dan’s Rating: 4.5/5

Only Lovers Left Alive (2014): A Tale of Fragile Vampires

Alone and reclusive, ancient musician and vampire Adam relies on one zombie to maintain his connection with the outside world. With the blood of the human population being tainted, he has to pick up his supply from a doctor through significant payoffs. His love, Eve, calls Adam and decides to travel from Tangier to Detroit, sensing that there is something wrong with him. Upon her arrival, they immediately improve both of their lives with a chance to reminisce and connect over his music. Their bliss is threatened when Ava, a girl Eve turned years ago, finds their Detroit home and crashes their party. Immediately demanding access to his blood supply, she disrupts Adam’s improvement and threatens his anonymity. Unable to tame her wild side, Ava convinces Adam and Eve to go out to a local club to listen to music and takes influence over Adam’s supplier in the process.

Starring: Tilda Swinton (Eve), Tom Hiddleston (Adam), Anton Yelchin (Ian), Mia Wasikowska (Ava), John Hurt (Marlowe), Jeffrey Wright (Dr. Watson), Slimane Dazi (Bilal), Carter Logan (Scott), Aurelie Thepaut (Flight Attendant), Ali Amine (Taxi Driver)

The cast was definitely an all-star group but the overall tone of the film was extremely melancholy. Hiddleston promoted his lines in almost a soliloquy-style format, rambling off musical themes and appreciation for the macabre. Showing a little more life but many of the same themes, Swinton projected a tamed wildness through her role. Having the most comedic influence through his restrained and even-tempered performance, Jeffrey Wright was perfect for his role. Wasikowska definitely played the wild child, with a combination of innocence and deviousness.

Jim Jarmusch produced a snapshot into the lives of two vampire lovers who are struggling to make it by in a harsh new world. Having disposed of the old ways of siring and drinking directly from humans, Adam and Eve had to go through safe supply lines to maintain clean nourishment. The good blood had almost a brief high after consumption. While living alone felt like simply existing to both of them, they decided that they need to be together again. Eve’s arrival in Detroit brought Adam out of his funk and significantly changed his desire to shoot himself in the heart with a wooden bullet. He started to feel a little more inspired to produce new music as well. All of this would have been great except for Ava’s arrival and disruption to their happiness. Cutting Adam’s supply line off by drinking from Ian, they are forced to kick her out and return to Tangier to restart together.

The experience of this film is a tale of two elements: the melancholy and the surreal. Vampire films have invariably been chained to brooding and macabre. This film takes that a bit to the extreme with dark environments and emotionally draining conversations. The majority of the film feels like a combination of musical interludes and long-winded conversations of either music, maintaining a quiet existence, or how to live in a dying society. There were a few elements that broke the mold a bit, particularly the scenes with Dr. Watson and the references to humans as living zombies. The surreal elements hovered between the existence of vampires and their interactions with humans. Adam admitted to the production of a lot of music over the years but trying to keep it out of the spotlight. When one of his songs reached a sense of popularity, his home started to attract humans believing to have found the source of the music. There were also only a few scenes that truly confirmed Adam, Eve, Ava, and Marlowe as vampires.

This film could have had much more potential if it did not take itself so seriously. It felt like the storytelling was stuck in neutral until Ava showed up and ended with something significantly less than a bang. The actors were phenomenal but the concept fell a bit short.

Dan’s Rating: 2.5/5

The Spectacular Now (2013): Somewhere Between the Past and the Future

Sutter is quite the partier. Not taking his academics too seriously, he is friends with nearly everybody. After a party one night, he finds himself waking up to one of his classmates poking him while he lays on the ground in someone’s front yard. Having a quick attraction to the understated beauty, he starts to spend more and more time with her. While he influences her to start drinking more and take more charge in her life, she begins to break down his emotional walls and forces him to start thinking about his life a little more differently. Still hung up on his past love and unsure about the relationships within his family, he continues to try to keep himself at a safe distance from Aimee as to not feel too committed. Things are changing all around him and now Sutter has to decide if he wants to continue to live in the now or begin to plan for the future.

Starring: Miles Teller (Sutter), Shailene Woodley (Aimee), Brie Larson (Cassidy), Masam Holden (Ricky), Dayo Okeniyi (Marcus), Kyle Chandler (Tommy), Jennifer Jason Leigh (Sara), Nicci Faires (Tara), Ava London (Bethany), Whitney Goin (Aimee’s Mom), Andre Royo (Mr. Aster)

While Miles Teller typically plays the supporting role, this was his chance to take the lead. As a wayward high school student, he fairly accurately represented the sense of unsureness that many young people struggle with in their late teens. While he seemed to get away with a lot of drinking throughout the film, his changes were very apparent between the beginning and end. Shailene Woodley also continued to prove how she is the next great actress. Presenting the kind girl-next-door vibe, she mixed a tentativeness with a sense of purpose that matched well in the story-telling.

James Ponsoldt’s adaptation of the young adult novel made for quite the story of a somewhat lost young adult’s coming to terms with his life. Sutter was unaware of a lot about his current situation, as he was continually numbing himself with alcohol. His parents had divorced and he felt disconnected from almost everybody. At the same time, the alcohol helped to fuel his partying ways and ability to seem like he was everybody’s friend. Aimee helped him start making changes in his life, but it was the meeting with his father that served as the most significant catalyst in his maturation. He never knew that his father left him and his sister behind. Instead, the meeting with his father finally allowed Sutter and his mother to come to terms with their fractured relationship and start to repair what had been lost. These changes also seemed to change his perspective about living in the now, as his father failed to make anything of himself because of that philosophy.

The relationship with Aimee was a rather interesting one. While Ricky thought that Sutter was trying to rebound off of Cassidy, he was actually falling in love with something new and different than the hookups that had been occurring between Cassidy and other students in his class. He had not completely changed, so he was still holding onto hope with Cassidy, even though she never let herself fully reconnect. Aimee was the good girl he had never given the time of day, and even she was changing through their relationship. She began to drink more often like Sutter and let herself experience a lot of relationship firsts. They struggled in most part due to Sutter’s immaturity, but Aimee gave him chance after chance until he missed her departure to Philadelphia for college. While he took an opportunity to try and repair his relationship with his mom and make a tough choice about thinking about his future, he decided to take a trip out east and see if he could continue the best thing he had ever had with Aimee.

This is a beautiful story, though it also struggles from a somewhat slower first half. The film definitely served as a great representation of the futures of Teller and Woodley.

Dan’s Rating: 3.5/5