“The Keeping Room” Movie Review by Daniel Barnes
The Keeping Room (2015; Daniel Barber) GRADE: C- By Daniel Barnes Set in “The American South, 1865”, Daniel Barber’s pompous and lifeless The Keeping Room opens with a quote from the Civil War’s rampaging General Sherman: “War is cruelty.” Under Barber’s heavy-handed direction, it’s also tedious and inert, […]