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A Monster Calls

Un monstruo viene a verme (A Monster Calls)

2016

J.A. Bayona

Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson ...

6.6

38,546

Fantasy. Drama The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Connor, and it asks for the one thing Connor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity looks from everyone, and at home with his mother's sickness. Will Connor overcome his problems? Will everything be okay? Will Connor be able to speak the truth? [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[Bayona] finds a nice balance between gothic fairytale and cancer drama."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A sensitive and beautifully made lesson in the limits and power of storytelling (...) Patrick Ness's screenplay (...) hits the emotional notes required by an illness-centered family drama with grace."	POS
United States	Kevin Jagernauth The Playlist	"This beautifully structured fable may be focused on the specific pain, of a specific child, during a specific moment in time, but it blows up every fragment of its premise into heart-stirring universal appeal."	POS
United Kingdom	Graham Fuller Screendaily	"J.A. Bayona (...) deluges his story - albeit well acted and technically-flawless - with emotionally coded representational imagery and hectors the viewer with stylistic shifts, mood swings, and frantic pacing."	NEU
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"It tries hard to simultaneously be exciting, emotional and magical. And while it doesn’t always manage to nail that tricky trifecta, it provides a number of touching moments and a behemoth to remember."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"We’ve heard the same lesson countless times before in other movies, and though it’s certainly impressive to see Conor’s anxieties manifest themselves in such a stunning (...) being, as monsters go, Bayona’s creation is all bark and no bite."	NEU

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