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The Sun Is Also a Star has a pair of easy-to-love leads, but tests the audience's affection with a storyline that strains credulity past the breaking point.
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The pacing can be quick, but overall this film will warm the heart of any hopeless romantic. February 19, 2020 | Full Review…
The pacing can be quick, but overall this film will warm the heart of any hopeless romantic.
Atavia Reed
The sun, the moon, the stars and all sorts of cosmic gobbledygook are thrown into "The Sun is Also a Star," a love story that shows how difficult it is to manufacture fate on screen. May 17, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The sun, the moon, the stars and all sorts of cosmic gobbledygook are thrown into "The Sun is Also a Star," a love story that shows how difficult it is to manufacture fate on screen.
Adam Graham
Although devoid of sophistication and overly dependent on contrivance, the frothy, fizzy giddiness of the love story may win over viewers who are predisposed to enjoy this sort of entertainment. May 17, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Although devoid of sophistication and overly dependent on contrivance, the frothy, fizzy giddiness of the love story may win over viewers who are predisposed to enjoy this sort of entertainment.
James Berardinelli
While time is likely on the side of its leads, their chemistry only goes so far in what feels, finally, like a half-baked movie. May 17, 2019 | Full Review…
While time is likely on the side of its leads, their chemistry only goes so far in what feels, finally, like a half-baked movie.
Brian Lowry
It's a tightly wrapped microcosm of many of the conversations driving our political zeitgeist. May 16, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
It's a tightly wrapped microcosm of many of the conversations driving our political zeitgeist.
Melissa Vincent
Once again, with the odds stacked against them, two extremely attractive people have fallen in love. May 16, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Once again, with the odds stacked against them, two extremely attractive people have fallen in love.
Johnny Oleksinski
There's not much to get excited about here in an Instagram vision of love you'll quickly want to forget. February 6, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
There's not much to get excited about here in an Instagram vision of love you'll quickly want to forget.
Steven Sheehan
The filmmakers have made somewhat hokey, unbelievable material into something thoughtful and artful. September 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The filmmakers have made somewhat hokey, unbelievable material into something thoughtful and artful.
Tim Brayton
Pretty, potential-filled, and ultimately a let-down. August 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Pretty, potential-filled, and ultimately a let-down.
Roe McDermott
The Sun Is Also a Star is undeniably saccharine and yet is not without its charms. It tries to explore aspects of modern racial conflict and cultural assimilation, but by keeping its focus on the romance, Star loses most of the power it possesses. August 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
The Sun Is Also a Star is undeniably saccharine and yet is not without its charms. It tries to explore aspects of modern racial conflict and cultural assimilation, but by keeping its focus on the romance, Star loses most of the power it possesses.
Douglas Davidson
Yes, it's both too bad and too good to be true, but there could be no better time for such fantasies. August 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Yes, it's both too bad and too good to be true, but there could be no better time for such fantasies.
Donald Clarke
Sure, Tracy Oliver's screenplay is simplistic and gee-whizz-earnest but so what, Ry Russo-Young directs with admirable skill and sensitivity. August 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Sure, Tracy Oliver's screenplay is simplistic and gee-whizz-earnest but so what, Ry Russo-Young directs with admirable skill and sensitivity.
Paddy Kehoe
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