Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop.… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there,… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
