Film Review – The Greatest Hits

There’s an effort made in “The Greatest Hits” to do something a little different with the concept of the time travel movie. Writer/director Ned Benson (the little-seen “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”) tries to balance the ways of fantasy and the bitterness of reality in the feature, which follows a woman’s drive to disrupt tragedy through the magical powers of music. “The Greatest Hits” takes love and loss very seriously, with Benson creating a melancholy film about desperation and healing. There’s a level of unreality to the endeavor, but the production does much better remaining in the realm of the real, exploring the mourning process and all the mental messiness involved with such a journey. The helmer gets lost when trying to present weirdness to the audience, but powerful feelings are in play throughout the picture, and lead Lucy Boynton does a commendable job capturing the slow drip of an emotional breakdown. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com