After a few weeks of disappointing films, finally there’s
viewing success with Director Marc Webb’s Gifted.
When her first-grade teacher (Bonnie Slate) realizes her
talent, it sets off their being found by her dominating grandmother (Lindsay
Duncan), who sues for custody, so she can put her in a school for gifted
children and, thereby, turn her into the one-dimensional person that drove her own
mother to suicide.
The dynamic of Grace, Evans, Slate and Octavia Spencer,
as their friendly neighbor, is as fine as anything that has graced the screen
in a long time.
I’m only sad for those reviewers, who can’t appreciate
such fine work.
If you want to be uplifted, Gifted is must-see viewing, well deserving
a 4.6 out of 5.