2023 · documentary
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Directed by Davis Guggenheim1h 35m2023
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
Our read: STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive documentary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured documentary, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
- intimate
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