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The Chaperone is inspired by a potentially interesting real-life story, but loses its sharpest and timeliest angles in the telling.
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If "The Chaperone" accomplishes anything, that will be to send viewers scrambling to Google to learn more about this extraordinary woman. November 22, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
If "The Chaperone" accomplishes anything, that will be to send viewers scrambling to Google to learn more about this extraordinary woman.
Verne Gay
I'm not an Elizabeth McGovern completist, but it may be the best thing she's ever done. November 22, 2019 | Full Review…
I'm not an Elizabeth McGovern completist, but it may be the best thing she's ever done.
John Anderson
"The Chaperone" is like telling the Tiger Woods story by choosing to focus on his first caddy. Sure, it's a way in, but unless that caddy has a really good story, what are we doing here? May 10, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
"The Chaperone" is like telling the Tiger Woods story by choosing to focus on his first caddy. Sure, it's a way in, but unless that caddy has a really good story, what are we doing here?
Adam Graham
Norma's story, as handmaid to greatness, inevitably ends up feeling like we've explored a pleasant tributary, rather than the mainstream. April 26, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Norma's story, as handmaid to greatness, inevitably ends up feeling like we've explored a pleasant tributary, rather than the mainstream.
Paul Byrnes
Between the speakeasies, the orphanages, the sexual energy, and the general air of corset-loosening, the movie should throb and thrum. It doesn't. April 19, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Between the speakeasies, the orphanages, the sexual energy, and the general air of corset-loosening, the movie should throb and thrum. It doesn't.
Matthew Lickona
Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., The Chaperone is lightweight trifle. April 11, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., The Chaperone is lightweight trifle.
Richard Roeper
Book-based tale of spirited teen and guardian; mature themes February 18, 2020 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Book-based tale of spirited teen and guardian; mature themes
Barbara Shulgasser
An unfortunate blip. November 25, 2019 | Full Review…
An unfortunate blip.
Ani Bundel
It never really comes alive. September 27, 2019 | Full Review…
It never really comes alive.
Lael Loewenstein
This is a coming-of-age story for both women. The title is fitting. May 10, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
This is a coming-of-age story for both women. The title is fitting.
Stephen Romei
Films like this have a general necessity in providing alternative options for certain demographics, but it helps if they're attempting to do something; whether it be comedic or dramatic, but this little picture fails at both. May 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Films like this have a general necessity in providing alternative options for certain demographics, but it helps if they're attempting to do something; whether it be comedic or dramatic, but this little picture fails at both.
Alex Lines
'The Chaperone' is a story about a woman who is changing alongside a changing country, making discoveries about herself in late middle age. May 6, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
'The Chaperone' is a story about a woman who is changing alongside a changing country, making discoveries about herself in late middle age.
Alexandra MacAaron
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