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The Book of Henry
Susan is on a mission to rescue christina from her abusive stepfather. She is motivated after laying hands on Henry's notepad. episode of crime, desperation, kindness and belief.
1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
25 March 1979, Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA
1 December 1970, Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
22 February 1949, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 2006, New York City, New York, USA
21 October 1977, Panama City, Panama
June 27, 2017
A nervy, willfully preposterous study of motherhood and loss, "The Book of Henry" recklessly shifts between tones and genres, never predictably but rarely satisfyingly.
June 16, 2017
Every book needs an editor.
June 16, 2017
The whole thing is boring and phony, with just a couple of lines of dialogue that feel sharp.
June 28, 2017
The film's mashing of whimsy and skin-crawling terror is grating and seem to cynically milk tragedy for entertainment.
June 30, 2017
The Book of Henry had promising elements within its opening act that were quickly dismantled once that event occurred. The film then free falls into a genre-bending mess where it does not know what film it wants to become.
July 21, 2017
With a plot far too dark for kids, and an approach that's often too mild to satisfy adults, the result is a film as uneven as the Rocky Mountain foothills.
June 18, 2017
I was swept up in the emotional realism of it all with nothing but grounded performances from the whole cast.
June 29, 2017
"Sometimes a good story will remind you of who you want to be," says Henry. Someone watching a different movie?
June 16, 2017
However hard the talented cast may try, those aren't people up on the screen; they're candles, balloons, and marbles.
June 16, 2017
Even in this mess of conflicting ideas, you still get a sense of the childlike wonder that drives Treverrow to tell stories. It's a rare gift, and something to help him survive calamitous setbacks like this one.
June 22, 2017
This shift in genre is an ambitious gamble, and I don't think it plays out successfully.
August 09, 2017
The Book of Henry might be brimming with talent, but in the end it's probably better left unread.