My Policeman (Michael Grandage, 2022) wr. Ron Nyswaner, Bethan Roberts (novel); Harry Styles, Linus Roache, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, David Dawson, Rupert Everett; gayrom
Bland.
All of the actors do a good day's work, except for the most important one: Harry Styles. I gather he's getting a bit of work as a singer, so that's all right: he doesn't need to do any 'acting' any longer.
Wikipedia:
In a review for The Hollywood Reporter, David Rooney wrote that the adaptation "does little to show that celebrated theater director Michael Grandage can translate his stage skills to the screen", that Grandage "gives the material so little edge" and that Nyswaner "never digs deep into his characters' psychology." He wrote that "Corrin is fine" and "as for Styles, he's not terrible, but he leaves a hole in the movie where a more multidimensional character with an inner life is needed most," while complimenting Dawson's performance, writing that the actor "plays the breezy sophisticate more convincingly than the lovelorn man inside".
The novel on which the film is based was inspired by Forster's relationship with his policeman Bob Buckingham.
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