All the corny romance stuff is about as intrinsic to the film’s soft appeal as the scrupulously well-made frocks, encompassing late Edwardian lace and flapper-style dropwaist numbers, and dozens of well-turned cloche hats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2022

If "The Chaperone" accomplishes anything, that will be to send viewers scrambling to Google to learn more about this extraordinary woman.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2019

I'm not an Elizabeth McGovern completist, but it may be the best thing she's ever done.

| Nov 22, 2019

This is a coming-of-age story for both women. The title is fitting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 10, 2019

"The Chaperone" is like telling the Tiger Woods story by choosing to focus on his first caddy. Sure, it's a way in, but unless that caddy has a really good story, what are we doing here?

| Original Score: C | May 10, 2019

Norma's story, as handmaid to greatness, inevitably ends up feeling like we've explored a pleasant tributary, rather than the mainstream.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2019

Between the speakeasies, the orphanages, the sexual energy, and the general air of corset-loosening, the movie should throb and thrum. It doesn't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 19, 2019

The focus isn't on the bratty flapper but McGovern's character's hesitant, poignant attempt to find out what she wants to be when she grows up, in a time and place where nobody wants her to be much of anything at all.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2019

Despite the best efforts of McGovern et al., The Chaperone is lightweight trifle.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 11, 2019

Because The Chaperone's second fiddle doesn't soak up the spotlight as readily as its star, the film leaves the viewer with an unsatisfied longing for more Brooks.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 11, 2019

The film has a sedate 온라인카지노추천-movie quality, unbefitting of the roaring era and its It Girl.

| Apr 11, 2019

The movie does have an intelligent 온라인카지노추천 feel in its technique, with its focus on actors' faces and on acting moments that can be easily seen, even on a small screen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2019

Yet despite the stirring performance at its heart, the movie is ultimately too restricted by its own dramatic conventions, and it only seldom comes to life.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2019

Self-actualization may be essential for people, but it doesn't always make for the best of drama.

| Apr 4, 2019

It's a small-scale movie, and no harm in that, but it's tidy and stagy in a fusty middlebrow way.

| Mar 30, 2019

A film of uncommon rapture, albeit one with little of the noisy, fast-moving action contemporary audiences have come to expect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2019

What makes Engler's film worth a look, apart from its two leading ladies, is how it manages to make a tale set nearly a century ago feel oddly timely.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 29, 2019

If it's too much to ask for a Richardson-starring Louise Brooks biopic, is it then too much ask for a true two-hander in which she and McGovern actually share the screen? Apparently, and sadly, yes.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 29, 2019

While Norma awakens to fresh possibilities, her story remains a snooze.

| Mar 28, 2019

Though Richardson is a delight, her verve and sexual confidence only highlight the dreariness around her. A light goes out whenever she's offscreen.

| Mar 28, 2019