The AV Club has some reservations about the «
overplayed artsiness» but finds «a genuinely affecting film, about how people pursue personal happiness.»
A good headshot is generally a candid, unfussy likeness — a portrait without too much
distracting artsiness.
I'm pleased to see
such artsiness spilling out onto John Wesley Dobbs Avenue.
Yet beneath all the
overplayed artsiness — and not too far beneath, thankfully — there's a genuinely affecting film, about how people pursue personal happiness, sometimes at the expense of their families, and sometimes as as way of building something newer and better.