Laurence VVarner’s review published on Letterboxd:
So Howard and I had very different experiences of Balliol..
Had already read that section in the autobiography, and the film renders it well.
The film is necessarily a little confusing what with the country hopping. And boring given what is essentially a depiction of the nitty gritty of illegal transactions.Being an international drug smuggler looks like a pain in the ass. Like the worst bit of going on holiday (packing, organising people) over and over again.
Would have liked more on Howard's supposed intelligence. All I saw was someone who was able to find that tedium vaguely amusing. Maybe that's what doing well at school is: the ability to make tedium amusing.
🎵 I thought: this sounds like a knock-off Philip Glass score from 'The Hours'. I guess it was, by the man himself!