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The Chaperone

2018

Michael Engler

Haley Lu Richardson, Elizabeth McGovern, Miranda Otto, Blythe Danner ...

6.0

29

Drama In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Engler tends toward containing all of this feminine assertiveness in a faithful representation of period morals that still feels rather stilted and forced"
		Sam Fragoso The Wrap	"It lacks fire and fervor (...) Röhrig and McGovern have curious chemistry (...) Much of 'The Chaperone' unfurls like a standard TV movie"
		Matt Fagerholm rogerebert.com	"[McGovern] and Richardson proved equally deft at ensuring that their characters emerged as fully realized beings (...) It manages to make a tale set nearly a century ago feel oddly timely (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s tidy and stagy in a fusty middlebrow way. Yet there are moments the two actresses lift the material"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Despite a thoroughly modern central character, this impeccably costumed, wishy-washy period piece feels like it emerged from a PBS storage trunk, wrapped in tissue paper and reeking of mothballs."
		Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"All the corny romance stuff is about as intrinsic to the film's soft appeal as the scrupulously well-made frocks (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"Because [the film's] second fiddle doesn't soak up the spotlight as readily as its star, the film leaves the viewer with an unsatisfied longing for more Brooks (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"'The Chaperone' is a film that wants to be about so many things, and one that loses both of its leading ladies in the process."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Chaperone' introduces a wild young star, then looks elsewhere (...) Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., [it] is lightweight trifle (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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