Aurora Borealis Reviews
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Alternately breezy and profound, pic hits enough emotional chords to connect with audiences, which will be charmed by a newly mature Joshua Jackson, a deeply aged Donald Sutherland and a friskily romantic Juliette Lewis.
Read the full reviewLewis, in particular, is a charmer; it's a loss that she never became an A-lister. And Jackson is, as always, earnestness itself. The movie would be a quality guilty-gloopy pleasure if it weren't so deadly overlong.
Read the full reviewAlthough it is overloaded with backstory and often tries too hard, Aurora Borealis finds a reasonable balance between romance and family drama.
Read the full reviewTrue, the film doesn't need 110 minutes to tell a story this pat, but hey, in dark times, it takes longer to deliver a feel-good message.
Read the full reviewMost successful in capturing the emotional elements of its story, the film relies on its excellent cast to balance out sketchily drawn characters and the unfortunate obviousness of its plot.
Read the full reviewThe fixation of independent movies on the arrested development of bourgeois dullards may have less to do with the relevance of the topic than the class of people who get to make movies. Whatever the case, James Burke directs from a screenplay by Brent Boyd.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 58
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Jackson can act
"This is a memorable film of the almost spiritual good movie of this coming-of-age drama. One of those turgid family dramas that hides its self-importance beneath a homey blue-collar facade that's bites out of Good Will Hunting, but get this - Joshua Jackson? he can actually act."
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