Review of Blackbird (2020) by Jesse Hassenger for The A.V. Club — 15 Sep 2020
With its quasi-literary tone and over-calculated concessions to the messiness of real life, the movie settles for coming across like a clumsy amalgamation of the wonderful Amy Bloom short story “Love Is Not A Pie” and the 1998 Sarandon tearjerker "Stepmom.
" The hollow, unsatisfying feeling the movie leaves behind may be the most authentically funereal thing about it.
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This review of Blackbird (2020) was written by Jesse Hassenger and published by The A.V. Club on 15 Sep 2020.
Blackbird has generally received positive reviews.
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