Film Review – Alone Together

It hasn’t been easy for filmmakers to use the COVID-19 pandemic as a subject for riveting cinema, and most of these features have failed either financially or creatively. It’s a storyteller’s mission to deconstruct a complex situation of divide and fear, but this particular public health emergency needs more time to marinate, allowing for some much-needed perspective when it comes to replicating an often frightfully dire situation of community support. “Alone Together” is the second directorial effort from star Katie Holmes (2016’s “All We Had” being her debut), and she hopes to supply some needed understanding of psychology and human connection with her take on the early days of lockdown life. We’ve been here before, most recently in 2021’s “Together,” and Holmes (who also scripts) has her heart in the right place with this tender exploration of attraction, but she doesn’t have much else to support an overlong endeavor that’s not terribly gripping to begin with. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com