Road to Redemption: Poonpiriya Paves the Way for Heartfelt Crowd-Pleaser
Teetering between cornball and poignant, Baz Poonpiriya’s One for the Road is a big-hearted melodrama that hits all the right notes, almost too neatly, then makes up for its sins with welcome surprises. We’ve all seen our share of weepy dying-buddy films, and while it doesn’t reinvent the wheel—there’s enough fresh fun here in the filmmaker’s third outing.
Poonpiriya showed a knack for mainstream appeal with his 2017 breakout, Bad Genius; here, he combines broad strokes with personal touches—a feat in and of itself, even when the results are mixed.…...
Teetering between cornball and poignant, Baz Poonpiriya’s One for the Road is a big-hearted melodrama that hits all the right notes, almost too neatly, then makes up for its sins with welcome surprises. We’ve all seen our share of weepy dying-buddy films, and while it doesn’t reinvent the wheel—there’s enough fresh fun here in the filmmaker’s third outing.
Poonpiriya showed a knack for mainstream appeal with his 2017 breakout, Bad Genius; here, he combines broad strokes with personal touches—a feat in and of itself, even when the results are mixed.…...
- 2/15/2021
- by Dylan Kai Dempsey
- IONCINEMA.com
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