Somewhere Between is a documentary about American adoptees from China. The film opens with the adoption of a Chinese girl by the filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton. She wants her daughter to know about her culture and identity so interviews and follows four teenage adoptees. The four young women are remarkably self-aware, articulate, touching, and poignant. All four adopted families are different and all four young women are on different journeys. We follow each as they grow, learn, adjust, and attempt to find their place. One girl tries to locate her birth parents, another assists a toddler at an orphanage with CP.
The film is intellectually enlightening and emotionally engaging in equal parts.
See It.
Gangster Squad is a train wreck of a crime thriller.
The story is a regurgitation of a film that's been made a hundred times before. Crime boss is taking over city, upstart cop forms team and stops boss. The script is laughable in its poor construction. Any literate person that has seen
Untouchables and
L.A. Confidential could have written it. The cast is amazing but most of them have little to do. Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn turn in over-the-top absurd performances so jarring you wonder what the hell they were thinking. Josh Brolin does ok as the lead but can't do much with the dialogue. The talent of Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Pena, and Robert Patrick is totally wasted with the shoddy scene construction and crap they have to say.
Don't See It.
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