Review of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) by Zane U — 23 Feb 2013

It ebbed and flowed to the point where there were just as many times that I was bored or frustrated by the continual goose chase and the contrived emotional turmoil. But the characters' pain that opened the film and the closure found at the end of the film were very effective bookends to an otherwise directionless movie, and they were powerful enough to overwhelm any quibbles that I otherwise had.