Ok, let me stare at this for a while. It takes much more than a bestseller to thrill, this movie inadvertently manages to embrace both worlds. Of course, we've heard a similar script before, aspiring pseudo-family drama and the whole "poor thing" spectrum that this kind of film usually pulls from its audiences.
Pullman (the protagonist) goes further, he plays in sensitive parts (largely, obviously, due to the good performance of Jacob Tremblay as the little boy) without asking for…