Film Review – Lullaby

“Lullaby” is a film that contains immense passion and heartbreak, yet the final cut doesn’t retain much in the way of organic emotional release. The directorial debut of actor Andrew Levitas, “Lullaby” is a disjointed, overcooked tale of familial relationships, self-examination, and assisted suicide, and a feature that delivers only sporadically when it comes to the feelings it’s hoping to inspect. It’s grabby work, perhaps too concerned with fulfilling its tearjerker intentions, but there is some detectible skill from Levitas that suggests he might be a helmer to watch one day. For all the manipulation that requires a machete to hack through, there are moments contained within that are welcomingly human. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com