Review of Wakefield (2017) by Everett — 01 Apr 2019
Why this film was made, I do not know. There's nothing to justify nearly two hours of one's life watching a self-indulgent man behave so cruelly to his family, with its faux "awakening"(those snowflakes! Those kids from next door!) - except to see how it ends.
Don't bother. Doctorow essentially truncated it, but the screenwriter could have taken it further, and should have. What a cheat. Cranston is - as always - marvelous, but it's all highly implausible, and even he can't save this dated material.
This review of Wakefield (2017) was written by Everett on 01 Apr 2019.
Wakefield has generally received mixed reviews.
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