Starring Naomi Watts and Jacob Tremblay, it’s a drama about how a small boy, played by Jaeden Lieberher, comes up with a plan to rescue his next-door-neighbour Christina (Maddie Ziegler).
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an eyebrow-raising score of just 25%.
Vox called it “deliriously bad”, while The Telegraph questioned whether it could be “the worst film of the year”.
Time Out said: “The whole thing is boring and phony, with just a couple of lines of dialogue that feel sharp.”
AV Club wrote: “What Trevorrow and screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz have created is just a feature-length put-on that flirts queasily with fascism.”
New York Times called it a “tedious mess” while Washington Post said it “falls apart in a heap of loose pages, each one taken from a different script”.
Vulture raged: “It does not suffice to call The Book of Henry bad; it’s nonfunctional, so poorly conceived from the ground up as to slip out of the grasp of the usual standards one applies to narrative film.”
Safe to say, then, it’s not a hit.
Trevorrow’s next project is the final instalment of the current Star Wars saga, and there’s now concern over its quality.
“HI I AM NERVOUS ABOUT COLIN TREVORROW BEING IN CHARGE OF STAR WARS 9,” one person tweeted.
“I have a conspiracy theory Colin Trevorrow purposely made a horrendous movie with The Book of Henry just so he could get out of Star Wars,” someone else said.
However, reacting to the firestorm, another Twitter user said: “I wouldn’t be surprised if Colin Trevorrow just quits Star Wars cause you assholes won’t give him a break.”
Episode IX is set to film next January ahead of release in May 2019.
Before that, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is out on December 14 of this year.
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