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Storm Boy

2019

Shawn Seet

Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney, David Gulpilil, Erik Thomson ...

6.0

331

Drama Based on the beloved book, Storm Boy is a highly emotional tale of a young boy growing up on the beautiful but uninhabited coastline of Southern Australia who unexpectedly rescues and then raises three orphaned pelicans. When he forms a close bond with them, he finds himself at odds with his fisherman father and his life takes a new and unexpected turn.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Kuipers Variety	"Fine family entertainment (...) [It] has the emotional heft and visual splendor to win the hearts of domestic and international family audiences"	POS
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"[Its] themes come across as didactic rather than moving (...) Seet does best when he focuses on the boy with his birds"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sarah Ward Screendaily	"This film hits all of the earnestly heartfelt beats when it flies close to the crux of its Australian Film Institute Award-winning 1976 predecessor."	POS
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster The Guardian	"An epic downer (...) The new 'Storm Boy' makes jarring missteps, however – particularly in its final act (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] will most appeal to fans of the book or the 1976 film adaptation. But even those unfamiliar with the tale will find it charming and moving"	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times	"A beautiful new version of 'Storm Boy' speaks to our times (...) Uplifting and melancholic"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick Dent Time Out	"[It] lacks subtlety, but you may cry anyway (...) It’s not without its charms (...) but forgoes the nuance of Henri Safran’s 1976 version, a gem of the Australian New Wave (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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