Recent reviews

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  Review by stripeymonkey ★★★

  Fairly strong drama with good central performances. Jennifer Connolly is her usual good self but the story, although it kept me involved, isn't the best. However, it does have a pleasing ending even if it is largely telegraphed.

  Probably not a film that will linger in the memory but worth a watch on Netflix.

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  Review by Aaron King ★★★

  Jennifer is a quality actress even in sillier films when she was younger and she is good here but this film isn't that good of a film and from what I heard and read is that part of it is in the editing rather than the script because he can write some amazing scripts like Milk and okay scripts like J Edgar. I feel this movie is somewhere in the middle. He is doing lots of commentary of Utah and its way of life there with its politics and religion.

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  Review by Scott Renshaw ★★

  Sometimes, you just know “too much” when you see it—and too-much-ness spills from writer/director Dustin Lance Black’s funky drama. The title refers both to the setting—a Virginia beach town—and central character Virginia Nicholas (Jennifer Connelly), a single mother with a history of mental instability. She’s having an affair with local sheriff Dick Tipton (Ed Harris), a pillar of the local community and outwardly devout Mormon who’s running for state senate, but not just a run-of-the-mill affair; he’s into S&M gear. Then Virginia fakes being pregnant with Dick’s baby. And meanwhile, her 16-year-old son, Emmett (Harrison Gilbertson), is beginning a romantic relationship with Dick’s daughter (Emma Roberts). There are moments of emotional honesty here, particularly involving Dick’s wife (Amy Madigan) trying…