The Washington Post
The movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
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A Journal for Jordan
Michael B. Jordan (Creed) and Chanté Adams (The Photograph) star in this true-story romance saga directed by Denzel Washington, based on the article written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Canedy (Adams) detailing her relationship with a soldier named Charles Monroe King (Jordan). Deployed overseas in combat zones, he began writing a journal full of life lessons for their newborn son Jordan.
2021Rating: PG-13131 minsUSASony Pictures
DramaTrue Story & BiographyRomance
A Journal for Jordan | Reviews
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Boston Globe
The film is earnest, if also a bit slick, though not so much as to keep it from being affecting.
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Variety
Back in the 1980s, it would have been right down the middle of the plate. Today, it seems like a film out of time. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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RogerEbert.com
(A Journal for Jordan) wears its heart on its sleeve, unpretentious and sincere as a homemade valentine.
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The New York Times
Denzel Washington directs this adaptation... with care, respect and a deep-seated knowledge of the Black love stories that don't make it to the big screen nearly enough.
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Los Angeles Times
This portrait is too clean, too unquestioning, too accepting, to get to the marrow.
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Entertainment Weekly
There are three different movies packed into Denzel Washington's A Journal for Jordan, and none of them are very good.
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Hollywood Reporter
Even scenes in which (Jordan) saunters around shirtless, spontaneously starts doing pushups or flashes a coy smile aren't enough to keep one fully engaged...
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A.V. Club
It trades in cloying sentimentality and romance, the gooey melodrama done no favors by Washington's stiff, anonymous direction.
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A Journal for Jordan is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand.