- CELEBRITY
- 11:15 PM, Apr 24
the storm effects are first-rate, immersive all the way. The tale-telling ability of director Craig Gillespie is frustratingly inconsistentby Soren Anderson [Seattle Times ]
the result couldn't be more convincing, and in a film like "The Finest Hours," that counts for a lotby Kenneth Turan [LA Times ]
the movie essentially kills time until the CGI takes over and the oil tanker is torn in halfby Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]
eventually the whole film is just adriftby Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
doesn't reinvent the genre or show off with nonstop bells and whistles. But The Finest Hours gets the job done, just like its central characterby Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
director Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm) captures the inherent bravery at the heart of Finest Hours even though things go nowhere on the homefrontby Brian Truitt [USA Today ]
"The Finest Hours" is probably the best of a bad bunch of recent releases. But it's a shame that this terrific story's engines keep flooding in the face of wave after wave of narrative inertiaby Michael O'Sullivan [Washington Post ]