The Whale

Manuel São Bento

8.0

October 15, 2022

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/the-whale-spoiler-free-review-lff-2022 "The Whale earns its place in the "most tearful films of the year" list as it moves slowly yet efficiently towards its overwhelmingly emotional ending, especially elevated by the most subtly powerful & irrefutably moving performan...

Nathan

8.0

February 01, 2023

The Whale is a heart breaking story of our main character, Charlie (Brendon Fraser), as he tries to make amends for abandoning his daughter. Charlie is obese, an ailment that has manifested itself as a coping mechanism for a life of regret. In every scene and interaction this regret is worn by Charlie as a cloak of his past that will stay...

CinemaSerf

7.0

February 09, 2023

Yikes, but this second gay-themed outing for Brendan Fraser could hardly be more different from his 1998 "Gods and Monsters" one. Here his is the critically obese "Charlie" who has grown to a size where his health is in tatters and he has virtually no mobility as he regularly consumes two large pizzas for dinner and two great meatball sub...

r96sk

10.0

February 13, 2023

I doubt I can add much more to what has already been said about <em>'The Whale'</em>, but in a word: Bravo! Brendan Fraser truly is sensational in this role. I heard about all the acclaim and seen a few of the standing ovations he has received and all I can say is that it is unequivocally deserved. Truly outstanding from the first scen...

cracker13

9.0

March 18, 2023

I like this one. It really made me feel something.

Ahmetaslan27

9.0

March 26, 2023

write something honest Any movie directed by Darren Aronofsky contains a lot of violent scenes that are unfamiliar and hard on the eyes to see. Darren Aronofsky is a director whose work must be eagerly awaited because one of his films, Requiem of Dream 2000, is one of my favorites. The most important event in the movie The Whale is ...

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

9.0

April 22, 2023

**By: Louisa Moore / www.ScreenZealots.com** _This film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival_ When thinking about “The Whale,” I feel it’s important to start at the end rather than the beginning because the melodramatic finale almost ruins everything that’s good about the film. The finale is grossly manipulative, ...

Peter McGinn

7.0

April 25, 2023

At least partly because this movie was based on a play, most of the action takes place in one room. Of course, the nature of the character’s health issues makes it hard for him to move around, but I think the limited setting worked against the film. Maybe it is just my eyes getting older, but the cinematography of The Whale seems to follo...