Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016) by Nwgal — 30 Dec 2016

I went into the theater to see "Manchester By The Sea" with great expectations because of the Golden Globe nominations it received -- best actor, best drama, best director and best screenplay.

I'm surprised it received a nomination for best screenplay because too often there is no meaningful dialogue between characters or very little. Music now plays where words used to be. Can't any one write any more.

And because of this lack of dialogue, Casey Affleck has little to work with outside of being depressed due to the deaths in the film. This film also has a lot of foul language, too many slow scenes and unnecessary scenes that I wished I could have fast forwarded through or that the director would have cut.

The plot is good, but not ever film needs to be edited with meaningless flash backs. I understand why the director edited it like that, but some scenes were unnecessary. Can't writers and directors tell a story in chronological order any more? At least, sometimes.

"Manchester By The Sea" isn't a bad story. It's just a film that you should wait to see on DVD, so that you can fast forward through the slow scenes and mute the offense language if necessary.