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Don't Come Back from the Moon

2017

Bruce Thierry Cheung

James Franco, Rashida Jones, Cheyenne Haynes, Hale Lytle ...

4.8

53

Drama Fathers in a small California desert town abandon their children one by one leaving behind a wake of anger and crime as their sons and daughters come of age.

	Author	Review
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Gentle, wistful and often quite beautiful, Bruce Thierry Cheung’s 'Don’t Come Back From the Moon' is a dreamlike meditation on abandoned children and dying locations."	POS
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Poignant and visually striking (...) A delicate change-of-pace performance from Rashida Jones, as a young mother, is another notable strength of this understated coming-of-age drama."	POS
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"The movie captivates and fascinates as a free-form dream constantly poised on a knife edge between roiling nightmare and reassuring resolution."	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"It’s a very small movie with a very big emotional force (...) Jeffrey Wahlberg is so sincere and touching as Mickey that I doubt he will remain unknown for long (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"It’s an atmosphere piece first and foremost, and an effective one. But the characters, particularly the teens, feel primarily like micro-vignette archetypes of scattershot resonance rather than flesh-and-blood figures"	NEU

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