The following was written November 30th, 2014:
A fairly succinct review of the movie St. Vincent. No spoilers.
This was an enjoyable film. It was aesthetically pleasing to watch. The plot was both cute and serious.
The main character, Oliver, had the plights of any young boy in a new city. This element of the plot was fairly generic. His joining of a private catholic school, despite being jewish, was a nice piece of comedy. Despite the fact that there were very few people in the theater when I went to go see the film, were were a good number of chuckles and laughs at the ironies.
There was little scored music in the film, most of it was american folk and rock. For this type of film, the feel of this kind of music fit very well.
The ending was the typical sentimental tacky crap you expect from nearly every film, the epilogue went on for longer than I prefer.
My score: 8/10
