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- “The Whale” is an abhorrent film, but it also features excellent performances. It gawks at the grotesquerie of its central figure beneath the guise of sentimentality, but it also offers sharp exchanges between its characters that ring with bracing honesty.
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Dec 9, 2022 · 5 min read. “The Whale” is an abhorrent film, but it also features excellent performances. It gawks at the grotesquerie of its central figure beneath the guise of sentimentality, but it also offers sharp exchanges between its characters that ring with bracing honesty.
Aug 31, 2022 · In their first interviews about ‘The Whale,’ Fraser and director Darren Aronofsky talk their incredibly elaborate, sensitive work on this film, about a reclusive English teacher on the verge ...
Feb 19, 2023 · Believe the hype surrounding Brendan Fraser's performance in The Whale — the actor really is that good in the film. Much of the film’s content has been overshadowed by Fraser's lauded performance, and deservedly so since many believe it to be the greatest strength of The Whale's film adaptation.
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Sep 4, 2022 · For a film that opens with a 40-stone man suffering chest spasms after masturbating to online pornography, The Whale turns out to be disappointingly stodgy and sentimental.
Sep 4, 2022 · Human agony of both the physical and emotional kind is a Darren Aronofsky staple, but The Whale, which is driven by shattering work from Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher eating himself to...
Feb 11, 2023 · The Whale is a one-room play adapted for the silver screen by Darren Aronofsky known for his surreal dramas which we do see a hint of in this film. It follows a week in Charlie’s life, a morbidly obese English teacher who realises he is dying after he refuses to go to the hospital when he gets congestive heart failure.
Dec 7, 2022 · The Whale review: Brendan Fraser does his best to elevate Darren Aronofsky's latest It's easier to root for Fraser and his much-lauded comeback than it is to actually connect with Aronofsky's ...
