
The Washington Post
The movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
Full reviewMichael 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.
The movie is too tidy to ever really feel like a living, breathing thing.
Full reviewThe film is earnest, if also a bit slick, though not so much as to keep it from being affecting.
Full reviewBack 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.
Full review(A Journal for Jordan) wears its heart on its sleeve, unpretentious and sincere as a homemade valentine.
Full reviewDenzel 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.
Full reviewThis portrait is too clean, too unquestioning, too accepting, to get to the marrow.
Full reviewThere are three different movies packed into Denzel Washington's A Journal for Jordan, and none of them are very good.
Full reviewEven scenes in which (Jordan) saunters around shirtless, spontaneously starts doing pushups or flashes a coy smile aren't enough to keep one fully engaged...
Full reviewIt trades in cloying sentimentality and romance, the gooey melodrama done no favors by Washington's stiff, anonymous direction.
Full reviewA Journal for Jordan is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals and Academy On Demand.
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