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Howl

2010

Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Jeff Daniels ...

6.1

2,371

Drama A drama centered on the obscenity trial Allen Ginsberg (Franco) faced after the publication of his poem, Howl.

	Media	Author	Review
		Kyle Smith New York Post	"Milk meets Pink Floyd the Wall. Says everything it has to say in the first 20 minutes, then keeps repeating itself."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It takes a familiar, celebrated piece of writing and makes it come alive (...) 'Howl' is an exemplary work of literary criticism on film"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] lacks both the sense of radicalism generated by the original poem and any sort of emotional validity on its own terms."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the qualities I like about this film is that the writer-directors, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, are aware of the time when Beat scene was new (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Philip French The Guardian	"I found it only moderately enjoyable and rather smug"
		Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"The film of 'Howl,' like its source material, is undeniably brave, committed and inventive."
		Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"[The] exhilaration one feels watching this absorbing genre-bender doesn't mean the whole thing hangs together. It doesn't"

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