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The Book of Henry

2017

Colin Trevorrow

Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell, Jacob Tremblay, Dean Norris ...

5.7

1,618

Drama 'The Book of Henry' is the story of a single mother, Susan, raising two boys, one of whom is a genius. She discovers that the family next door, which includes Henry's kind classmate Christina, has a dangerous secret, and that Henry has devised a surprising plan to help. Susan finds herself at the center of the plan.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A near-catastrophe (...) It's impossible to report how stupid things get without being specific (...) The compounding coincidences he requires in order to deliver a happy ending are almost disgustingly dishonest."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[A] bad movie (...) where the badness expands and metastasizes (...) The film’s muted yet still rather flamboyant terribleness derives from the fact that it seems to be juggling three or four borderline schlock genres at once."	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"In its pure misjudged ickiness, bad-acting ropiness, and its quirksy, smirksy passive-aggressive tweeness, this insidiously terrible film could hardly get any more skin-crawling (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Keith Watson Slant	"Schmaltzy, manipulative, and tonally schizophrenic (...) Bland, listless direction (...) A film that consistently attempts to pass off sentimentalism as profundity (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Somebody gets cancer, and the movie becomes a painfully obvious tearjerker (...) It’s a ridiculous premise that’s never quite self-aware enough to obtain much depth or sustained entertainment value."	NEG
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"You can blame a screenplay (...) that leans much too heavily on coincidence and contrivances, or you can blame the direction by Colin Trevorrow that lacks the fluky charm of his indie breakthrough (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"An uneven, often silly thriller (...) The really sad thing is that this is a movie with some intriguing characters that has some real comic and dramatic potential, but all this gets lost in increasingly silly plot mechanics."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Children are likely to find it dark and unappealing while adults may be perplexed by its muddled morality. It pulls in all sorts of contradictory directions (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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