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Please Stand By hits a number of familiar coming-of-age beats, but adds just enough of a Trek-fueled twist to keep things interesting.
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Lewin can't quite transcend the inconsistencies and dwindling credibility of the concept or give the material a driving pulse, even with its race-to-the-deadline setup. Jan 28, 2018 | Full Review…
Lewin can't quite transcend the inconsistencies and dwindling credibility of the concept or give the material a driving pulse, even with its race-to-the-deadline setup.
Sheri Linden
You can guess how most of its scenes will play before you even come to them, and it has a circumspect, sanitized quality, as if meant to be shown in group homes without causing undue upset. Jan 26, 2018 | Full Review…
You can guess how most of its scenes will play before you even come to them, and it has a circumspect, sanitized quality, as if meant to be shown in group homes without causing undue upset.
David Edelstein
Touches the viewer with the subtle emotional wallop of a feather brushing against the heart. Jan 26, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Touches the viewer with the subtle emotional wallop of a feather brushing against the heart.
Rex Reed
A sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar. Jan 26, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A sensitive character study whose story beats are a little bit overly familiar.
Glenn Kenny
Lewin ... posits this as a whimsical road comedy, but I couldn't help questioning both the logic and the consistency. Jan 25, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Lewin ... posits this as a whimsical road comedy, but I couldn't help questioning both the logic and the consistency.
Sara Stewart
Please Stand By deflates into a perfectly watchable but soft parable in which a can-do young American loses a battle, only to win the war of growing up, while the adults in the room confront their own unhelpful rigidities. Jan 25, 2018 | Full Review…
Please Stand By deflates into a perfectly watchable but soft parable in which a can-do young American loses a battle, only to win the war of growing up, while the adults in the room confront their own unhelpful rigidities.
Ella Taylor
Checking off all the autism boxes rather than imbuing an unconventional character with additional depth ultimately dooms Please Stand By to mediocrity. Jul 20, 2019 | Rating: 2.75/5 | Full Review…
Checking off all the autism boxes rather than imbuing an unconventional character with additional depth ultimately dooms Please Stand By to mediocrity.
Josh Goller
The movie functions well as a road film and a film about overcoming obstacles, however it almost telegraphs its ambition for awards. [Full Review in Spanish] Mar 1, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The movie functions well as a road film and a film about overcoming obstacles, however it almost telegraphs its ambition for awards. [Full Review in Spanish]
Francisco Marinero
Dakota Fanning becomes the motor and heart of this road movie that, unfortunately, ends up taking the shortcuts of balsamic fiction. [Full Review in Spanish] Mar 1, 2019 | Full Review…
Dakota Fanning becomes the motor and heart of this road movie that, unfortunately, ends up taking the shortcuts of balsamic fiction. [Full Review in Spanish]
Jordi Costa
The director... has thought up a beautiful way of talking about our personality through the things we like. [Full review in Spanish] Feb 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The director... has thought up a beautiful way of talking about our personality through the things we like. [Full review in Spanish]
Toni Vall
... melodramatic contrivances compromise any genuine audience empathy for Wendy or her plight. Jan 25, 2019 | Full Review…
... melodramatic contrivances compromise any genuine audience empathy for Wendy or her plight.
Todd Jorgenson
Given that Please Stand By's climax includes a speech about how important self-expression is and how cruel it is to dismiss it, it's difficult to be so critical.... Dec 21, 2018 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Given that Please Stand By's climax includes a speech about how important self-expression is and how cruel it is to dismiss it, it's difficult to be so critical....
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