Howl basically plays like a decent Sunday-afternoon 온라인카지노추천 docudrama. It may be considered by some to be art, but I imagine few will consider it to be cinema.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2021

Epstein and Friedman utilize fact, fiction and animation tropes to explain how a seven-page poem would launch a counterculture, or what some have labeled an ongoing culture war.

| Jun 10, 2020

But for students of Ginsberg, American history, and the Beats, Howl is probably essential viewing.

| Jan 22, 2020

The main reason to see the film is the note-perfect performance by James Franco.

| Oct 4, 2019

Excellent performance from Franco, who carries the weight of the film... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2018

Great art transcends its creator. In this case, it also lays the foundation for a great film.

| Feb 7, 2018

Still, the biggest problem with "Howl" is the fact that none of its parallel narratives build to much of a climax.

| Oct 7, 2015

Howl is invigoratingly fresh. It has compelling filmmaking, a great script and tremendous acting from all involved.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 11, 2013

To its immense credit, Howl the movie makes a huge success of this potentially problematic mish-mash.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2011

A docu-drama which has 'aren't we a clever little art house production' tattooed through every frame.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2011

Any movies that introduce new audiences to real-life moments when the world was moved forward a little bit by books are nothing to take for granted.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It is the trial itself - which Ginsberg did not attend - that is the real payoff here as Howl's defenders and detractors get their day in court.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2011

The film's jigsaw construction initially lends an air of freshness and unpredictability, but as the film moves forward the lack of any overarching thematic structure or emotional dynamism becomes a problem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2011

Fittingly unconventional in narrative and driven by James Franco's inspired performance, this is a fascinating and thought-provoking tribute to an epic work.

| Mar 8, 2011

Both poetic as film and insightful as dramatised documentary, an inspired piece of cinema.

| Mar 6, 2011

Sadly, I found it only moderately enjoyable and rather smug, much like an average edition of the BBC's Arena.

| Feb 28, 2011

Expertly brings to life the poem and a defining moment in the cultural life of America.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2011

A beautifully shot, softly nostalgic look into an artist's imaginative, intense and troubled life.

| Feb 25, 2011

What the hell is going on with James Franco? The erstwhile Spider-Man star is rapidly turning into cinema's Renaissance man.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2011

The animated sections are entirely unnecessary and rather terrible, but there's no denying the power of Franco's eerily spot-on incarnation of the prophetic free thinker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 25, 2011