A million little things james frey6/5/2023 This third feature, while it is proficiently made and decently acted, has more in common with the egregiously empty Fifty Shades of Grey. The director’s pleasing first film, Nowhere Boy, in which her future husband played the young John Lennon, was imperfect but had dramatic restraint and genuine character curiosity. Who is this movie for? Beyond the couple who made it, I have no idea. Even with all the fussy directorial flourishes that artist-turned-filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson has pasted onto it. Without emotional involvement in the central character’s redemptive journey from darkness into light, A Million Little Pieces is just another grueling yet mechanical round of self-destructive degradation followed by begrudging accountability and cleansed deliverance that has little to add to the crowded field of addiction dramas.
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