The Choice Review

It's almost weird how pleasantly diverting The Choice is in its very very few best scenes. The film never really becomes good (at its best, it rises to the level of "average") but its never painful to watch, and there's some legitimately talented actors putting in solid work in service of a screenplay that chows down on story cliches like there's no tomorrow. For all the pearls of good o'l southern wisdom its characters drop all the time, it wouldn't have hurt to take a cue from some axiom that praised the virtues of originality.

In The Heart Of The Sea Review

The tragedy that befell the whaling ship Essex in 1820, which inspired the 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby Dick, is perfect fodder for a grand cinematic interpretation, and that's exactly the kind of film In The Heart Of The Sea turns out to not be. This retelling of those true life events concentrates mainly on the ships first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), though a framing device is utilized to tell this story via Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) being told the tale by a grown up version of the ships cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (his older self played by Brendan Glesson, while future Spider-Man Tom Holland plays his younger incarnation).