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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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Watery romance that has no real feeling to cling to. July 24, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Watery romance that has no real feeling to cling to.
Ella Kemp
Yikes. That wasn't pretty. July 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Yikes. That wasn't pretty.
Kevin Maher
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. July 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
Totally has the look and feel like something you would see on the BBC. Slow in pacing, solid acting with an engaging story. A small, well made film. January 2, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Totally has the look and feel like something you would see on the BBC. Slow in pacing, solid acting with an engaging story. A small, well made film.
Carey-Ann Pawsey
Tell It To The Bees is buzzing with desire and dances to the tune of humming bees November 20, 2019 | Full Review…
Tell It To The Bees is buzzing with desire and dances to the tune of humming bees
Emily Maskell
At first glance, Annabel Jankel's film... could be written off as any other period romance, but the two leads, Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin share chemistry and understanding that the film becomes a precious moment in time. October 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
At first glance, Annabel Jankel's film... could be written off as any other period romance, but the two leads, Holliday Grainger and Anna Paquin share chemistry and understanding that the film becomes a precious moment in time.
Katie Hogan
It's kind of adorable, though, even when it's... qualitatively questionable. August 8, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
It's kind of adorable, though, even when it's... qualitatively questionable.
Nathaniel Rogers
It's an unsatisfactory film, a strange mixture of pedestrian scene-setting, an uncertain tone and an overarching and overused metaphor of the bees, which at one point takes off into magic realism. August 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's an unsatisfactory film, a strange mixture of pedestrian scene-setting, an uncertain tone and an overarching and overused metaphor of the bees, which at one point takes off into magic realism.
Alexa Dalby
There's nothing all that interesting to it, or anything that distinguishes it from other queer romance dramas. July 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
There's nothing all that interesting to it, or anything that distinguishes it from other queer romance dramas.
Deirdre Molumby
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