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American Son possesses considerable power in its premise, while wrestling with the claustrophobic aspects of transferring a stage play to the screen. Ultimately, the subject matter wins out, yielding a flawed but brisk 90-minute Netflix presentation. Nov 1, 2019 | Full Review…
American Son possesses considerable power in its premise, while wrestling with the claustrophobic aspects of transferring a stage play to the screen. Ultimately, the subject matter wins out, yielding a flawed but brisk 90-minute Netflix presentation.
Brian Lowry
Almost all the acting here is pointedly overstated, as if the performers are trying to project past an especially long proscenium. Nov 1, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Almost all the acting here is pointedly overstated, as if the performers are trying to project past an especially long proscenium.
Glenn Kenny
The next time Netflix goes sniffing around Broadway, it should bring back something with brains to match heart. Oct 31, 2019 | Full Review…
The next time Netflix goes sniffing around Broadway, it should bring back something with brains to match heart.
Andrew Lapin
"American Son"... tries very hard to squeeze significance out of every scene. Unfortunately it forgets to tell a story amid all the meaning. Details, details. Oct 31, 2019 | Full Review…
"American Son"... tries very hard to squeeze significance out of every scene. Unfortunately it forgets to tell a story amid all the meaning. Details, details.
Chris Vognar
A deafening misfire, like the most unbearable, unwatchable daytime TV soap filled with the most awful self-conscious hamminess, parodic emoting and pointless shouting-at-each-other acting. Sep 11, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A deafening misfire, like the most unbearable, unwatchable daytime TV soap filled with the most awful self-conscious hamminess, parodic emoting and pointless shouting-at-each-other acting.
Peter Bradshaw
Worthy yet heavy-handed, too often coming off as an editorializing lecture or essay in thinly fictionalized form. Sep 10, 2019 | Full Review…
Worthy yet heavy-handed, too often coming off as an editorializing lecture or essay in thinly fictionalized form.
Dennis Harvey
'American Son' is a film that will leave parents with questions about their own effectiveness, and also with an uncontrollable urge to find out where the teenagers are right now. Nov 12, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
'American Son' is a film that will leave parents with questions about their own effectiveness, and also with an uncontrollable urge to find out where the teenagers are right now.
Jonita Davis
American Son is only useful as a tool of assistance for some acting theater school. [Full Review in Spanish] Nov 11, 2019 | Full Review…
American Son is only useful as a tool of assistance for some acting theater school. [Full Review in Spanish]
Marcelo Stiletano
Flawed as it is, American Son is a vital conversation starter, as it explores the racially mine-sown landscape many of us walk through daily. Nov 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Flawed as it is, American Son is a vital conversation starter, as it explores the racially mine-sown landscape many of us walk through daily.
Steve Murray
American Son doesn't really work as a movie. Its theatricality comes across as forced and curiously inert on screen, at close range to the actors, and its conversations about race and policing in particular feel stilted and contrive Nov 4, 2019 | Full Review…
American Son doesn't really work as a movie. Its theatricality comes across as forced and curiously inert on screen, at close range to the actors, and its conversations about race and policing in particular feel stilted and contrive
Alissa Wilkinson
Kenny Leon's 'American Son' gets real about societal constructs and implicit racial bias Nov 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Kenny Leon's 'American Son' gets real about societal constructs and implicit racial bias
Lynnette Nicholas
Washington's commitment to her role can't overcome all the shouting obviousness of the script. Nov 1, 2019 | Full Review…
Washington's commitment to her role can't overcome all the shouting obviousness of the script.
John Serba
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