Manchester by the Sea
As you'll see, this is one of the more complicated high scores I've ever given. This review is also at Channel 24 What it's about After his brother dies, a broken, bitter man named Lee Chandler has to go back to his old hometown to look after his teenage nephew. What we thought Manchester By the Sea, for this reviewer at least, is a classic case of a film that is immensely admirable and yet all but impossible to even remotely like, let alone love. It's a film that has been nominated for countless awards and absolutely deservedly so as it is an exquisitely put together and flawlessly acted near-masterpiece – and I detested very nearly every moment of it. This isn't so much like films that are impossible to enjoy because of their subject matter but are richly rewarding viewing experiences anyway (see Schindler's List, 12 Years a Slave) but more like something like Raging Bull – Martin Scorsese's 1980 tour de force that may be a true ...