Young Washington Finds the Man Beneath the Monument
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William Franklyn-Miller as George Washington in Young Washington(Angel Studios)
Critics have dismissed Young Washington as hagiography, a marble idol buffed for the country’s 250th, and that is the one thing it is not. What director Jon Erwin has made is smaller and more human: the story of a hungry, status-starved provincial clawing at a social order content to leave him a tenant farmer. The father of the country has not yet arrived, and the young man standing in his place is a genuine creation.
Erwin wrings a surprising amount of scale from a modest purse. More sturdy than distinguished, the craft is handsome where it counts, and when the muskets ...
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