Son of Rambow: Film Review

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Critic wrangle: "Son of Rambow."
Published 5/2/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... at the Onion AV Club suggest that "make that check out to Wes Anderson, care of Rushmore Academy, with a portion of the residuals due to Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and his signature Rube Goldberg setpieces." He finds "the film works better in sequences than as a whole, and suffers from an overly familiar homemade aesthetic." Nick Schager at Slant seconds the Anderson comparison, preferring the first half of the film to the second: "Jennings's interest in dramatizing youthful male bonds of friendship and cinema's function as a unifying medium giving way to ...