By Thomas M. Puhr. While occasionally touching and buoyed by across-the-board strong performances…the resulting film is excessively earnest at best, and manipulative at worst.” Patrick Dickinson blends the multigenerational family portrait, fish-out-of-water tale, and couple-grapples-with-Alzheimer’s drama to middling effect in Cottontail (2023). It seems the writer-director figured that if he […]
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