7.5/10
The Descendants has two big strengths - first is the acting. George Clooney is reliably great and Shailene Woodley is surprisingly fantastic. The second is the way it deals with its central theme of death and how the reverberations of the life of the deceased continue to affect their loved ones. Most of this material is dealt with in a thoughtful and mature way, and does ask some questions we don't normally think about.
But like director Alexander Payne's last movie Sideways, it also grates at times. One supporting character is particularly corny and insufferable and sometimes things just fit a bit too cutely. For me, both movies had things I liked and things I didn't but were at the end of the day enjoyable, if not revelatory.
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