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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 23

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  elio: *puts oliver’s shorts over his head*
  my mum: wait is he gay

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 24

  “I remember everything.”

  I remember everything. I couldn’t put this film into words if I tried. I couldn’t ever review this, or even explain how personal this felt to me. Every kiss, every movement, every laugh, every dance, every look, goodbye, embrace. If I could, I couldn’t even begin. 

  “I remember everything.”

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  Review by Lucy ★★½ 90

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  best picture showcase: film #7

  it just doesn’t click. a gorgeous facade, masking the vagueness of the dialogue and intentions and feelings of the characters. dripping with scenic appeal, but i’m only slightly charmed by it. what tries to be one of the most sincere movies in years only feels hollow to me, even when i try to let it in. oliver and elio are different ages, but it’s the maturity level that bothers me here: one, a man, going out by himself until dawn. the other, only a boy, sitting with his parents, being read a fairlytale while it rains outside. he puffs out his chest and acts older than his age. and that’s what it is: an act.…

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  Review by Mark ★★★★½ 11

  So strange that life goes on after finishing a film like Call Me By Your Name.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 27

  I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful, real, or brutal than the way Elio repeats, “Because I wanted you to know.”

  Because I wanted you to know.

  Loving someone is hard, whether it’s the butterflies you get in the beginning or the weight of the world you feel towards the end. I’ve realized through my relationship that love doesn’t make sense, and with my now 9 viewings of this film, that this movie doesn’t make sense to me either. I truly don’t understand, I could never understand, how Luca, Ivory, and the cast pulled this off. The feeling of love is so hard to replicate because everyone experiences it differently, but there’s something so universal about the looks Elio’s parents…

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  Review by ellie ✨ ★★★★★ 9

  imagine losing your virginity and you're wearing double denim

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  Review by truman ★★★★★ 8

  would it send my italian exchange student the wrong idea if i showed him this film

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★½ 85

  Sign me up as the apostate that just doesn't appreciate this one, that doesn't really understand why a long, rambling, sleepy movie about a disconnected, disaffected, insanely rich and privileged teenager moping around until he gets laid is so moving to people. There are better romances, better gay coming-of-age movies, better summer-fling stories, and movies where I don't get really really distracted by watching a dude gut a peach in his bed with his bare hands and then fuck it, making an immense mess for someone else to clean up. I will fight the world on this one.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 160

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  cw: abuse, violation of consent

  This year's token queer representation at awards season returns to the fertile grounds Moonlight broke free of: mixing watered-down queerness with predatory stereotypes.

  There's a way to tell this story without delving into this kind of relationship. What this film wants to be is bittersweet. What this film wants to be is quiet, contemplative, achingly beautiful, the feeling of a crush requited, the feeling of discovery and awakening. And you can see that it achieves this with significant portions of its audience, but to engage with that you have to ignore some glaring red flags.

  The film goes out of its way to tell us some things: Elio is 17. Elio is a virgin. Elio…

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  Review by kársten ★★★★★ 19

  so....

  As most of you know I originally had some pretty mixed feelings on this thang (4/5). While I thought it was well done I also thought it had some unforgivable kinks that apparently nobody on YouTube agreed with. Tonight I decided, for whatever reason, to rewatch it and I have to say...it’s a gosh darn masterpiece. I apologize for how harshly I criticized it initially, looking at it now I can say it’s one of the most authentic portrayals of love I’ve ever seen. With a million things being said so poetically with each shot and some of the best and most honest performances I’ve seen, this is without a doubt nothing short of a masterpiece. Flawless filmmaking. I’ll be right back, gotta go cry to Visions of Gideon. 

  
  MASTAPIECE

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  Review by adrie 5

  oliver: later!
  elio: *looks at the camera like he's on the office*

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 27

  “Is it better to speak or to die?” That’s the core question of “Call Me By Your Name,” which surfaces in a scene where a character reads the words of Marguerite of Navarre in “The Heptaméron,” but it’s an idea at the heart of all queer narratives. It’s been especially present in queer cinema, where muteness and survival are often the most bittersweet bedfellows. But “Call Me By Your Name” not only quotes Marguerite’s words, it suffuses them into every fiber of its being. It’s a great film because of how lucidly it poses her question, and an essential one because of how courageously it answers it.

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