Release dates
October 3, 2017
93 months agoBlu-ray / VOD / DVD
Released
The Book of Henry release date
The movie The Book of Henry is already released on Cinema, Blu-ray, VOD and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 13 reviews, The Book of Henry gets an average review score of 36
A tween genius plots a murder in the contrived Book Of Henry.
2867d ago
There are some who will undoubtedly be charmed by just how nutty this movie is, how a small-scale family drama can be augmented with thriller movie dimensions and anchored by the most precocious child genius in the history of film.
2867d ago
“The Book of Henry” is a throwback to the Amblin-produced suburban sagas from the ‘80s, where the adults are usually clueless, the families are broken and children are our greatest hope.
2867d ago
Sometimes a movie comes along to remind us that Hollywood hasn’t run out of ideas — even if they’re crass, baffling, and ludicrous ones.
2867d ago
Naomi Watts plays the mother of a boy genius who convinces her to undertake an outrageous mission in Colin Trevorrow's genre-hybrid, which opened the Los Angeles Film Festival.
2867d ago
What could have been a compelling family saga starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay is buried under an uneven, often silly thriller.
2867d ago
Story of a single mom, her genius son, the girl next door and her abusive dad starts strong – then turns into a cinematic disaster.
2867d ago
It’s the filmmaking equivalent of a monkey with the head of a goat, the tail of a fish, wings and teeny-tiny rat claws.
2867d ago
It's the tale of a child genius, a disease-of-the-week weeper, and a drama about the abuser next door. No wonder it's laughable.
2867d ago
It uses the mawkishness of a Hallmark Channel movie as an ironic backdrop for a twisted Hitchcockian thriller.
2867d ago
A weepie, a thriller, a tragedy, a sub-Spielbergian pastiche, The Book of Henry is mostly a tedious mess.
2867d ago
Excruciatingly misjudged, insidiously comedic child-abuse death drama in which a dying kid leaves a diary for his family detailing how to take revenge on an abuser. It’s as bad as that sounds and worse.
2867d ago
In a script that would have been killed in a first round of pitches in any Screenwriting 101 class, The Book of Henry then becomes a film about the notebooks that Henry left behind, and how Susan (Watts) and her remaining son Peter (Tremblay) deal with the fact that Henry has noticed that their next-door neighbor Christina (Ziegler) is being abused by her stepfather Glenn (Norris).
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