Daily Plastic: Henry Poole is Here

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Henry Poole is Here Trailer . IMDB	Pop songs hold the skinny plot together, but a surprisingly caustic Luke Wilson is the medicine that helps the sugar go down.... [It's as] dumb as a concrete culvert and unexplainably touching. Robert Davis Paste Magazine	As Henry engages in furious verbal skirmishes with the true believers, Mr. Wilson offers a credible portrait of an angry, despairing man fending off a cult. But the film's spiritual deck is stacked. Henry Poole Is Here is insufferable hokum that takes itself very, very seriously. Stephen Holden New York Times Flooding the screen with bright light, employing rising eye-of-God crane shots, intercutting generic images of the "heavens" and setting it all off to sappy piano-and-strings slop (augmented with some "otherworldly" electronic effects), [Director Mark] Pellington offends the viewer's aesthetic sensibilities as surely as he does his intelligence. And boy does he offend the latter. Andrew Schenker Slant Magazine Henry Poole Is Here manages a fairly rare trick: It's a movie that's both deeply felt and completely phony. Ty Burr The Boston Globe

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