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Gifted

2017

Marc Webb

Chris Evans, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer, Lindsay Duncan ...

6.5

6,847

Drama Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan) whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary. Octavia Spencer plays Roberta, Frank and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Marc Webb directs a drama about a child prodigy, but it's as formulaic as his blockbusters (...) Once the movie gets into court, the hokum flies"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Despite its recycled tropes, the comedy-drama manages to be both funny and moving even if its emotional manipulations are fully apparent."
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Webb is back to his roots (...) which is to say, solid and familiar, but not exactly a triumphant return to form (...) Webb rarely puts his trio together, and the film suffers all the more for it."
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Call it a dumbed-down 'Good Will Hunting' (...) Suffocating and stultifying plot mechanics"
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"[It] is a custody battle melodrama that’s as schmaltzy as all get out (...) Unnuanced, overplotted, and mechanical."
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Virtually no one involved appears to have remembered what human or human-adjacent behavior should feel like"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"Tom Flynn’s script is filled with a lot of great lines (...) Webb is much more confident and appealing with an intimate movie (...) he treats his characters with a healthy mix of respect and reality"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Gifted’s increasingly manipulative treatment of provocative subject matter cheapens the drama of its premise (...) A film lacking the same intelligence and inquisitiveness that its young protagonist possesses in abundance."

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