Review of Let Him Go (2020) by Joe Morgenstern for Wall Street Journal — 05 Nov 2020
The pace is deadly slow, the style old-fashioned and the acting devoid of spontaneity. These are skilled actors, but the writing is so threadbare — an important character from the novel has been eliminated — and the direction (by Thomas Bezucha, working from his own adaptation) is so lacking in nuance that genuine dramatic energy gets lost by the wayside during the road trip to North Dakota.
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This review of Let Him Go (2020) was written by Joe Morgenstern and published by Wall Street Journal on 05 November 2020.
Let Him Go has generally received positive reviews.
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