Fireworks (2018) - Rotten Tomatoes

Fireworks (2018)

TOMATOMETER

50%

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AUDIENCE SCORE

70%

Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.

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On the day when a fireworks display is planned, Norimichi, Yusuke, and their friends at school in a Japanese seaside town cannot agree whether or not fireworks are 'flat' or 'round' when they explode in the sky. With her parents divorcing, the young teenager Nazuna has more serious matters on her mind. Although unknown to the others, Nazuna's mother intends to take her away after the summer break. When Norimichi and Yusuke race 50 meters in the swimming pool, Nazuna secretly decides that the winner will accompany her when she runs away from home. Meanwhile the gang from school decides that the best way to figure out the shape of fireworks is to view them from the side, and they set out for a lighthouse above the beach from which the fireworks display will be fired. Read more at http://www.showcasecinemas.co.uk/film-info/fireworks#1SiZL7EcGWV1wG6F.99

Cast

Masaki Suda
as Norimichi
Mamoru Miyano
as Yusuke

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All Critics (20) | Top Critics (4)

It's a treat to see a film about young love where the young lovers aren't wise beyond their years; instead, they're prone to making stupid mistakes out of inexperience and perfectly understandable fear.

July 4, 2018 | Full Review…
Top Critic

A strange little movie that attempts the tricky feat of combining comedy, drama, sci-fi and romance, but it doesn't get those individual elements right so it never coheres as a whole.

July 4, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

Fireworks is very much told from the male point of view, and Nazuna seldom rises above "free-spirited object of desire."

July 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Top Critic

The unrealized potential makes the rote line style and stagnant backdrops seem all the blander.

July 3, 2018 | Full Review…
Top Critic

There's a lovely idea for a romance here [...] and yet the film doesn't know what to do with it.

July 5, 2018 | Full Review…

Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi's time-travel device mostly just exists to complicate what is, at heart, a trite and sexist love story.

June 28, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
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