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Gail Pennington

Gail Pennington's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Prayers for Bobby (2009) 73% EDIT “Poignant but as heavy handed as an old after-school special. It delivers an important message, but I wonder whether those who need to hear it will stick around long enough to listen.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 3, 2019 Full Review The Wizard of Lies (2017) 73% 2.5/4 EDIT “Madoff proves too slippery for clear characterization, even for the combined talents of Levinson and De Niro, and the result is a film that is dull, with bursts of weird.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 18, 2017 Full Review The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Be assured that The Witness for the Prosecution is fascinating, maddening and ultimately heartbreaking.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 1, 2017 Full Review Hairspray Live! (2016) 76% EDIT “There was a lot to enjoy, but also so many wrong-headed choices as to make viewers sometimes wonder exactly why we were bothering.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 8, 2016 Full Review Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016) 57% 2.5/4 EDIT “Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love is ultimately as sweet as the Whitman's Sampler the Parton kids get to dive into.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 30, 2016 Full Review The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) 29% 2/4 EDIT “Director Kenny Ortega frames Rocky Horror as a movie at a midnight showing, complete with audience members shouting lines and holding up props. Instead of adding to the fun, this just feels sad.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 21, 2016 Full Review O.J.: Made in America (2016) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The reward will be insights into sports and celebrity, fame and sexual status, and of course, and especially, race.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun 10, 2016 Full Review The Dresser (2015) 100% 3/4 EDIT “It's easy to understand why an actor of a certain age would rush to sign on for The Dresser.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 27, 2016 Full Review Confirmation (2016) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Confirmation succeeds in making us re-examine attitudes from the vantage point of a quarter century, and also in reminding us that politics is an ugly business.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Apr 14, 2016 Full Review The Bronze (2015) 37% 2/4 EDIT “There are some laughs in "The Bronze," but more time in which we might wish it would end already.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar 17, 2016 Full Review Grease: Live! (2016) 92% EDIT “Fox raised the bar on TV musicals Sunday night with its ambitious, wildly energetic and mostly entertaining Grease: Live.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb 1, 2016 Full Review Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015) 78% EDIT “The story is a sweet one, and Coat of Many Colors does what it does very well.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 11, 2015 Full Review The Wiz Live! (2015) 91% EDIT “An abundance of commercials and a striking lack of Toto didn't keep The Wiz Live! from being NBC's best holiday production yet.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 4, 2015 Full Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (2015) 70% 3/4 EDIT “An exciting, involving finale, streamlining the complicated end game of Collins' story without shortchanging the climactic action.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 19, 2015 Full Review By the Sea (2015) 35% 1/4 EDIT “It's very, very slow, with probably only 20 minutes in a two-plus-hour movie in which something could be said to be happening.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 19, 2015 Full Review The Martian (2015) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Don't let seeing the movie stop you from reading the book.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 1, 2015 Full Review Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) 36% 1.5/4 EDIT “You'd better like seeing fake sharks munch on people's extremities if you plan to enjoy Sharknado 3.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 23, 2015 Full Review 7 Days in Hell (2015) 87% 2/4 EDIT “If it were more straight-faced, "7 Days in Hell" could work better.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 13, 2015 Full Review Inside Out (2015) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The best animated movies are made as much for the grown-ups who will accompany the children as for the kids themselves. That's certainly true of "Inside Out" ...” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jun 18, 2015 Full Review Bessie (2015) 91% EDIT “Viewers of Bessie will love her and want to shake her, to beg her not to squander her talent.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 15, 2015 Full Review Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas (2014) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's new, and even modern, but it has the warm heart and stop-motion style of holiday specials past.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 18, 2014 Full Review Peter Pan Live! (2014) 56% EDIT “Much of Peter Pan Live! was lovely and entertaining, and tearing it apart seems mean-spirited, because having a live (live!) musical on television in 2014 is such a remarkable thing.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 5, 2014 Full Review Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014) 27% 2/4 EDIT “There's a plot, which any of us could have written in our sleep.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 1, 2014 Full Review A Poet in New York (2014) 4/4 EDIT “Anyone who watches won't soon forget A Poet in New York, one of the best things on television this year.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 30, 2014 Full Review My Old Lady (2014) 61% 2/4 EDIT “Kline has fun with the role, but the plot's dark turn and heavy-handed message make "My Old Lady" more bitter than sweet.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sep 18, 2014 Full Review
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