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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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"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. Apr 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. Apr 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. Apr 11, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., The Chaperone is lightweight trifle.
Richard Roeper
The film has a sedate TV-movie quality, unbefitting of the roaring era and its It Girl. Apr 11, 2019 | Full Review…
The film has a sedate TV-movie quality, unbefitting of the roaring era and its It Girl.
Leah Pickett
The movie does have an intelligent TV feel in its technique, with its focus on actors' faces and on acting moments that can be easily seen, even on a small screen. Apr 10, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The movie does have an intelligent TV feel in its technique, with its focus on actors' faces and on acting moments that can be easily seen, even on a small screen.
Mick LaSalle
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 8, 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
Static and stilted... May 3, 2019 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Static and stilted...
David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
The film might be set in a different period, but its themes resonate today, with Louise and Norma showing the transformation of two quite different women living through a period of cultural change. May 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film might be set in a different period, but its themes resonate today, with Louise and Norma showing the transformation of two quite different women living through a period of cultural change.
Francesca Rudkin
The Chaperone is produced by PBS Masterpiece and is being shown in theaters, but it feels more suited to television. The budget is clearly lower for things like wigs and backdrops and old-age makeup to the extent that it's noticeable. May 1, 2019 | Full Review…
The Chaperone is produced by PBS Masterpiece and is being shown in theaters, but it feels more suited to television. The budget is clearly lower for things like wigs and backdrops and old-age makeup to the extent that it's noticeable.
Deborah Krieger
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