The performances are uniformly good and Kelly's effort to tell an unbiased story is admirable, but I Am Michael ultimately delivers more in the way of talking points than drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 2, 2017

Franco's fantastic here. He gives a fieriness to Michael as a gay advocate, then seamlessly slides into borderline madness as he starts accepting that the "voice" he hears is God's.

| Jan 27, 2017

Kelly is finding his sea-legs as a director.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2017

Despite some wooden line readings, Franco gives himself fully to the challenge of rendering Glatze with truth and resolve.

| Jan 26, 2017

Mr. Franco broods and puzzles and vacillates. But he often seems abandoned by a director whose approach is so noncommittal and dramatically limp that it strands the actor, and his character, in a bland purgatory of conflicting motivations.

| Jan 26, 2017

A soberly stylish, impressively non-judgmental portrait of a controversial real-life case of transformation.

| Jan 26, 2017

An intermittently affecting - but not entirely convincing - conversion story.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2017

Kelly and his actors seem anxious not to judge Glatze, but they can't downplay the cutting nature of his betrayal.

| Jan 26, 2017

Franco gives a sensitive performance, and this is a film worth seeing, but it's not easy to see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2017

It stars James Franco in the title role - casting that proves to be the film's biggest burden.

| Jan 25, 2017

Franco never plays this character as hurt or vindictive. Right to the end, he's earnestly seeking, determined not to be slapped with any label, and willing to risk being totally alone.

| Original Score: B | Jan 25, 2017

Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jan 24, 2017

The film is careful not to judge its protagonist's spiritual journey, but the delicately pointed direction of the final phone call between Michael and Bennett-Franco shot discreetly from behind and to the side; Quinto head on, facing camera-speaks volumes

| Jan 3, 2017

Where the film is most interesting, however, is in its documentary value.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2015

Justin Kelly's first feature offers an evenhanded portrait of its controversial subject, but it doesn't make his decisions easy to take.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 13, 2015

An interesting story, but unfortunately, rather uninterestingly told.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 27, 2015

An unusually nuanced James Franco carries this complex portrait of a man who came out and fought to encourage other LGBT youth before converting to conservative Christianity.

| Jan 24, 2015

Thankfully, the screenplay doesn't portray the story in simple terms of good or evil but that doesn't mean that there's quite enough nuance or insight to constantly elevate the material above the level of a well-made but 온라인카지노추천-ready biopic.

| Jan 24, 2015