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“Without Marianne to cook and clean, Bea’s dad, Joe (John Reynolds), briefly morphs into a tired take on Mr.”
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“Which brings us to a central issue with “Purgatory”: Nothing much builds.”
“Such sitcom moments punctuate a smattering of stock coming-of-age scenes.”
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“Ostensibly a family comedy, the movie ultimately comes across as little more than a collection of awkward encounters.”
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“Decked out in a Halloween-costume version of the ‘80s, this plodding but amiable coming-of-age might be more precisely called a coming-of-agnostic: the tale of a Catholic teenager whose pubescent growing pains shake her faith in the things she once held sacred.”
“She smokes a cigarette indoors, then drags Bea and Chloe to meet up with her boyfriend.”
“One occurs when Joe has a midday date and hires Margot’s older sister, Jennifer (Nicole Redmond), to babysit.”
“Its lowest-common-denominator comedy is encapsulated by one scene in which a volunteer safety official makes a presentation to fearmonger about stranger danger.”
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“The heartbreak?”
“Scene after scene, she remains more of an enigma than a woman we’re invited to understand, and the few psychological tidbits we do receive fail to coalesce into anything more than fuzzy picture of general wifely malaise.”
“There is indignity in that, too: Bea didn’t choose to be the child of separated adults, and as members of their community — including a gaggle of employees at Bea’s Catholic school — cast aspersions on the Gravels, the movie shows how the shame of her parents’ separation follows her around, turning a private rupture into a public sin.”
“Thompson (Jack Innanen), but the mother-daughter confrontations that ensue register more as passing friction than mounting conflict.”
“The outing — which culminates with Jennifer urging Bea to shoplift a nail polish from the convenience store — evocatively captures one of the deep indignities of youth: suffering consequences at the hands of adults even when you know, with absolute certainty, that you’re not the one to blame.”
“Simmons, a great asset to the movie), and in the cafeteria alongside her friends, Nigel (Marcus Ngo) and Margot (Gemma Rosaria Rae).”
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