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Monuments

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United Kingdom, United States · 2021
1h 34m
Director Jack C. Newell
Starring David Sullivan, Marguerite Moreau, Javier Muñoz, Paulina Olszynski
Genre Comedy, Drama

A young widower sidesteps grief, loss, and familial dysfunction when he steals his wife’s ashes and sets off on an impulsive odyssey through America’s heartland in this charming road trip comedy.

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Film Threat by

In Monuments, the comedy outweighs the drama, for better and worse. For better because Sullivan is an engaging comedic presence, at once gawky, twitterpated, and restless. For worse, because the ending does not have nearly as much emotional effect as it probably should.

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Variety by Jessica Kiang

There’s not a lot here that’s wholly new, and the film’s tone of melancholy, offbeat uplift signals from the outset that we shouldn’t expect any grand revelations. Instead its pleasures come in smaller packages.

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RogerEbert.com by Peter Sobczynski

What could have been a powerful, timely, and potentially funny meditation on the grieving process is instead a work that's about as thin and flavorless as a gum wrapper.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

With an almost circus-like score setting the tone, a supernatural touch and a terrific ensemble cast playing characters that range from the eccentric to the deeply eccentric, Monuments is at times grounded, at times almost hallucinogenic — and always smart and entertaining.

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