A Monster Calls Cinema US Release Date
The movie A Monster Calls is already released on Cinema in the USA.
The movie presents the story of Connor who seeks help of a tree monster to cope with his mom's terminal illness.
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Based on 21 A Monster Calls Cinema reviews, A Monster Calls gets an average Cinema review score of 77. The score for all versions is 77 based on a total of 21 reviews.
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theplaylist.netCinema
Before “A Monster Calls” powerfully overflows its banks with deeply felt tides of emotion. Before you are trying to keep watching the screen through eyes welled with tears, the ...
2687d ago90/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comCinema
A boy worried for his cancer-stricken mother (Felicity Jones) is consoled by a giant tree (Liam Neeson) in the new film directed by J.A. Bayona ('The Impossible').
2687d ago90/100
www.wsj.comCinema
Do watch it on a big screen to take in all the beauty. A couple of flawless live-action performances share the screen with lovely animation, and with whatever digital magic spaw...
2687d ago90/100
www.theverge.comCinema
J.A. Bayona's new film uses fantasy to reckon with unbearable tragedy.
2687d ago90/100
time.comCinema
Children aren’t very good at seeing outside of themselves. If they’re doing the work of being children, selfishness comes with the territory–and learning that others feel things...
2687d ago88/100
www.usatoday.comCinema
A Monster Calls dials up a nostalgic and superb coming-of-age journey that'll have audiences grabbing all the hankies.
2687d ago3.5/4
www.rollingstone.comCinema
Adaptation of Patrick Ness' novel digs deep into imagination and comes up with grand, moving statement on grief.
2687d agoB+/A+
thefilmstage.comCinema
This film thankfully isn’t a dramatic piece gunning for awards glory, but rather a heartwarming adventure through the emotional landscape of a child unsure how to live.
2687d ago4/5
www.telegraph.co.ukCinema
A luscious, painterly fantasy overcast with sadness.
2687d agoB/A+
www.avclub.comCinema
Fairy tales and family tragedy converge in the kid-friendly melodrama A Monster Calls.
2687d agoB/A+
ew.comCinema
After decades of animated princesses and animal sidekicks, the words fairy tale tend to evoke thoughts of lessons learned and happy endings, but there is nothing Disney about th...
2687d ago75/100
www.seattletimes.comCinema
Older audiences braced for tragedy may be drawn to its imaginative visuals — the stories told by the monster are rendered in delicate, painterly animation — and to the achingly ...
2687d ago3/4
www.washingtonpost.comCinema
The movie is memorable for its stunning and inventive imagery, especially when the tree-monster’s tales spring to life as little works of art set in motion. Those tales provide ...
2687d ago3/4
www.rogerebert.comCinema
A lot of colleagues seem to have been under the impression—maybe because of the title combined with the fact that director J.A. Bayona made “The Orphanage”—that this is a straig...
2687d ago3/4
nypost.comCinema
A 12-year-old boy develops a friendship with a fantastical tree-being (voiced by Liam Neeson) in this wrenching magical-realist drama about love and mortality. Conor (Lewis MacD...
2687d ago70/100
www.nytimes.comCinema
It’s a catharsis painted with bold, noisy imagery, one that makes death an overwhelming tsunami. If you prefer to view dying as a natural part of life, a step in a cycle, this f...
2687d ago3.5/5
wegotthiscovered.comCinema
A Monster Calls gets off to a rocky start, but once Neeson's talking tree starts spouting tales of wisdom, everything tightens as the tears start flowing.
2687d ago3.5/5
www.austinchronicle.comCinema
A Monster Calls is based upon screenwriter Patrick Ness’ award-winning 2011 fantasy novel of the same name, which in turn was based upon an idea by the late Siobhan Dowd to help...
2687d ago3/5
www.theguardian.comCinema
This family weepie about a boy who imagines a monster to cope with the impending loss of his mother tugs at the heartstrings and aims for wonder – but still comes up a little sh...
2687d ago50/100
variety.comCinema
Though visually stunning, J.A. Bayona's gothic fable about an angry boy and the massive tree monster who comes to his rescue is all bark and no bite.
2687d ago1.5/4
www.slantmagazine.comCinema
A Monster Calls is both governed and straitjacketed by director J.A. Bayona’s competent impersonality.
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