Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ FAK [Croatian]
- Excerpt: Pravi film snimljen u pogrešno vrijeme i na pogrešan nacin.
- Danny Baldwin @ Critic Speak
- Nicholas Bell @ IONCINEMA.com
- Excerpt: Its greatest triumph? The casting of Katie Holmes as Thwaites’ authoritarian inclined mother—every sequence featuring the actress is granted an additional layer of satirical heft .
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A cogent morality play about love, memory, and what is needed for a full and rich life.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: feels like a retread of so many films that have come before it, “Divergent” by way of “Pleasantville” topped off with “Citizen Kane’s” talismanic Rosebud.
- M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The movie appears always on the verge of diving into the workings of this world, but instead, it stands cautiously on the edge.
- João Marcos Flores @ Cineviews [Portuguese]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: The screen adaptation of Lois Lowry’s beloved YA novel is platitudinous and disappointing.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- [New – 2/5/15] | Blake Howard @ Graffiti with Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A very simplistic Dystopia for Dummies — with a bit of Terrence Malick for Dummies thrown in — and inoffensive enough until it devolves into all kinds of stupid.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: The Giver was a published novel before the recent trend of teenage-focused dystopias (The Hunger Games and Divergent), but it arrives on film after them and comes across as just another cog in the young adult book to film adaptations.
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: The Giver movie is a surprisingly generic addition to the young adult film genre – especially for a story that champions individuality and self-expression.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: The Giver might not be as dramatically profound as it wants to be, but it certainly pulls off a tricky feat in portraying a slick, clinical world without the film itself coming off too slick or clinical.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: The Giver, based on Newberry Medal-winning novel of the same name, turns the genre in different directions, but perhaps not enough to avoid accusations of sameness.
- Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
- Excerpt: ‘The Giver,’ like the world it creates, is bland and flavorless.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: The future is an emotionless 1950s nightmare in The Giver, a stark, often beautifully realized adaptation of Lois Lowry’s popular novel that nevertheless lacks the courage of its convictions: too often does the film gloss over the novel’s inherently strong story elements to deliver a more box office-friendly young adult action-adventure.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Far from inspired…devolves into sledgehammer sermonizing punched up with familiar action-movie cliches.
- Kent Turner @ School Library Journal
- Excerpt: Long in gestation, the movie version of Lois Lowry’s trendsetting 1993 novel takes a thoughtful, but not a slavishly literal, approach to the multiplex.
