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Tell It to the Bees is well-acted and well-intentioned -- but often undermined by its frustratingly didactic storytelling.
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Despite the hefty talent involved, there's a preposterous pass-agg tweeness to this film - a contrived and self-conscious affair adapted from Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel and directed by Annabel Jankel. Jul 18, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Despite the hefty talent involved, there's a preposterous pass-agg tweeness to this film - a contrived and self-conscious affair adapted from Fiona Shaw's 2009 novel and directed by Annabel Jankel.
Peter Bradshaw
It would be easy to argue that the movie's heart is in the right place, because it is. However, to apply another cliché, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. May 3, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It would be easy to argue that the movie's heart is in the right place, because it is. However, to apply another cliché, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
James Berardinelli
Even though I wasn't familiar with what happens in the book while watching Tell It to the Bees, I could feel something was emotionally out of place. May 3, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Even though I wasn't familiar with what happens in the book while watching Tell It to the Bees, I could feel something was emotionally out of place.
Monica Castillo
Paquin... and especially Grainger shoulder the film's dramatic burdens with grace and ease... But the unassumingly square and overly familiar film simply isn't the buzzworthy vehicle their work deserves. May 2, 2019 | Full Review…
Paquin... and especially Grainger shoulder the film's dramatic burdens with grace and ease... But the unassumingly square and overly familiar film simply isn't the buzzworthy vehicle their work deserves.
Geoff Berkshire
Paquin and Grainger are likable together, and the film's exploration of womanhood as an identity often dictated by men is handled effectively. May 1, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Paquin and Grainger are likable together, and the film's exploration of womanhood as an identity often dictated by men is handled effectively.
Roxana Hadadi
It's hard to dislike this pleasant, earnest work. Sep 18, 2018 | Full Review…
It's hard to dislike this pleasant, earnest work.
Leslie Felperin
The leads are decent, but the frequent bee close-ups seem superfluous, and whole thing reeks of an overwrought soap, and might be better suited to the small screen than the big. Jul 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The leads are decent, but the frequent bee close-ups seem superfluous, and whole thing reeks of an overwrought soap, and might be better suited to the small screen than the big.
David Aldridge
The flirty tension between the two feels quietly credible, the camera occasionally shuddering with desire. Jul 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The flirty tension between the two feels quietly credible, the camera occasionally shuddering with desire.
Simran Hans
A film that unnecessarily shoots itself in the foot. Jul 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A film that unnecessarily shoots itself in the foot.
Jamie East
When it falls apart, it really does fall apart quite clunky... Jul 19, 2019 | Full Review…
When it falls apart, it really does fall apart quite clunky...
Mark Kermode
Director Annabel Jankel's overuse of beekeeping as a visual metaphor, meanwhile, just gets increasingly silly. Jul 19, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Director Annabel Jankel's overuse of beekeeping as a visual metaphor, meanwhile, just gets increasingly silly.
Alistair Harkness
It deserves an audience. Jul 19, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It deserves an audience.
Brian Viner
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