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I Am Michael takes a determinedly balanced approach to its complex subject, and although the results don't always add up, they're anchored by strong work from James Franco.
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Franco's fantastic here. He gives a fieriness to Michael as a gay advocate, then seamlessly slides into borderline madness as he starts accepting that the "voice" he hears is God's. January 27, 2017 | Full Review…
Franco's fantastic here. He gives a fieriness to Michael as a gay advocate, then seamlessly slides into borderline madness as he starts accepting that the "voice" he hears is God's.
Tricia Olszewski
Kelly is finding his sea-legs as a director. January 27, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Kelly is finding his sea-legs as a director.
Sheila O'Malley
Despite some wooden line readings, Franco gives himself fully to the challenge of rendering Glatze with truth and resolve. January 26, 2017 | Full Review…
Despite some wooden line readings, Franco gives himself fully to the challenge of rendering Glatze with truth and resolve.
Andrew Lapin
Mr. Franco broods and puzzles and vacillates. But he often seems abandoned by a director whose approach is so noncommittal and dramatically limp that it strands the actor, and his character, in a bland purgatory of conflicting motivations. January 26, 2017 | Full Review…
Mr. Franco broods and puzzles and vacillates. But he often seems abandoned by a director whose approach is so noncommittal and dramatically limp that it strands the actor, and his character, in a bland purgatory of conflicting motivations.
Jeannette Catsoulis
A soberly stylish, impressively non-judgmental portrait of a controversial real-life case of transformation. January 26, 2017 | Full Review…
A soberly stylish, impressively non-judgmental portrait of a controversial real-life case of transformation.
Robert Abele
An intermittently affecting - but not entirely convincing - conversion story. January 26, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
An intermittently affecting - but not entirely convincing - conversion story.
Pat Padua
While the film certainly isn't a masterpiece, Kelly has created a film that dares to be different. December 12, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
While the film certainly isn't a masterpiece, Kelly has created a film that dares to be different.
James Clay
Michael is not without his weaknesses and despite declaring that he no longer identifies with being a homosexual, it does not necessary mean that he ceases relationships with the same sex. November 3, 2018 | Rating: 8 | Full Review…
Michael is not without his weaknesses and despite declaring that he no longer identifies with being a homosexual, it does not necessary mean that he ceases relationships with the same sex.
Alexander Ryll
Features silent bar brooding, sad piano-scored walking and absolutely no fun, anywhere, ever. The sex isn't fun, the politics isn't fun, the prayer is determined but never ecstatic or tender. August 6, 2018 | Full Review…
Features silent bar brooding, sad piano-scored walking and absolutely no fun, anywhere, ever. The sex isn't fun, the politics isn't fun, the prayer is determined but never ecstatic or tender.
Eve Tushnet
Director Justin Kelly clearly presents the facts of the story, but the necessary psychological content is lacking. September 17, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Director Justin Kelly clearly presents the facts of the story, but the necessary psychological content is lacking.
Richard James Havis
Well, that Franco is over; he's gone down a different road in movies that trifle with gay experience in not always positive ways like the new I Am Michael. March 3, 2017 | Full Review…
Well, that Franco is over; he's gone down a different road in movies that trifle with gay experience in not always positive ways like the new I Am Michael.
Armond White
... struggles to find a consistent tone and feels embellished in spots, yet it evolves into a provocative examination of the crossroads between religion and sexuality February 17, 2017 | Full Review…
... struggles to find a consistent tone and feels embellished in spots, yet it evolves into a provocative examination of the crossroads between religion and sexuality
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