It features an excellent lead performance and does justice to the subtle emotions of its moving story.

I found it to be moving, heartfelt and sympathetic, as well as sad. Brendan Fraser is worthy of every ounce of praise.

The result is bold, uneven, frustrating and entertaining. It may not be great but, since it is so many other fun things, does it need to be.

It is approximately 35% love story, 40% coming-of-age story, 25% horror. That blend ends up working quite well.

Though a lot of viewers likely know at least some of this stuff, hearing it spoken, without melodrama, does have a strong impact.

This definitely feels like a movie that will only become richer and more effecting upon repeat viewings.

Tár is powerful in the way it raises questions for the audience to answer.

Unfortunately, its better qualities are overwhelmed by the screenplay’s glaring weaknesses.

This works as a concept, but the execution is heavy-handed and doesn’t hit hard enough to connect the way it may have on the page.

There is so much strangeness that it may take until the movie is over to realize it doesn’t really connect its dots.