Finding Neverland (2004)
Finding Neverland is about the importance of hanging on to belief in something that transcends the empirical world. It’s a gentle, graceful, and unsentimental motion picture.
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December 2004
Finding Neverland is about the importance of hanging on to belief in something that transcends the empirical world. It’s a gentle, graceful, and unsentimental motion picture that comes to us, believe it or not, from Marc Forster, who brought us the heavy-handed, implausible, indulgent Monster’s Ball.
Yes, I said “unsentimental” — and that’s where I part ways with some of the film’s critics.
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