Review of Coming Through the Rye (2016) by Jené W — 24 Apr 2016

Excellent movie! Hope to see it in a theater soon!

This review of Coming Through the Rye (2016) was written by Jené W on 24 Apr 2016.

Coming Through the Rye has generally received positive reviews.

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By Andy Webster (339) for New York Times (5,786) on 12 Oct 2016

As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his…

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By Donna C (109) on 24 Apr 2016

Great coming of age film about a young man's quest to seek out JD Salinger. Great direction, screenplay, acting and musical score. See it…

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By Heidi L (66) on 31 Jul 2016

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By Stephen Farber (295) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Sep 2016

Cooper seizes control of the movie when he’s onscreen, but the two young leads are also enormously appealing…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 03 Nov 2016

The danger in making a movie like Coming Through the Rye is in the constant referencing and hero worship of bigger, better, towering works…

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By Francesca L (17) on 13 Mar 2017

Alex Wolff did a very good job, he's AMAZING! Good movie :D…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 26 Oct 2016

Ironically, the phoniness that iconic teen romantic Holden Caulfield despised pervades Jim Sadwith’s Coming through the Rye, a semi-autobiographical…

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By George B (718) on 25 Apr 2016

I drove from VT to Boston to see this beautiful movie at the BIFF more than a week ago and have not been able to stop thinking about it since…

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By Sean K. Cureton (19) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 05 Dec 2016

Coming Through the Rye though circumvents explicit adaptation of the novel which it unapologetically recalls, feels wrongheaded and disrespectful…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 09 Oct 2016

Writer/director James Steven Sadwith’s autobiographical coming-of-age film doesn’t have a lot of originality to it, in spite of the nearly-unique…

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