Stonewall (2015)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.
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For his sympathetic part, Karl Glusman (2015's "Stonewall") brings a quiet, respectful affection to Jesse's photographer pal Dean?a rare beacon of goodness in a town where there's no room for his kind.
But even within the forgiving context of the genre, Moonfall is laughably preposterous (that says a lot considering Emmerich also directed Stonewall ) and suffers from a lack of winking, self-aware humor.
Only one of his releases – 2013’s White House Down – could be called a true Saturday afternoon TNT classic, which was the mode he operated best in, and his attempts to pivot away from big-budget spectacle and move towards a more “personal” cinema went down in flames (anybody remember Stonewall ?).
But Emmerich, who’s previously demonstrated his greater artistic ambitions with such efforts as Anonymous and Stonewall , seems to be going through the motions.
And yes, I saw “Anonymous,” his “Shakespeare didn’t write Shakespeare’s plays” debacle, and the better-intentioned bust “Stonewall.”