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  Review by AmandaTheJedi

  This one is going to be polarizing but can’t wait til we complete the ‘Thomasin McKenzie obsessing over hot blondes’ trilogy

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  Review by rizzo

  a fucked up gay woman’s casablanca

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  Review by Sara Clements ★★★★½ 1

  If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, you don’t. If you know, you know. And if you don’t know like I honestly feel bad for you. I cannot explain it. I don’t have the vocabulary to sit here and explain it. You get the vibe or you don’t get the vibe.

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  Review by Chris Evangelista ★★★★½ 2

  YES HA HA HA YES

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 2

  Eileen is not what you may expect it to be. Set in the 1960s it examines a rough world full of sick and twisted people. It's a film of bad fathers and unhappy households, with abuse and revenge lingering. Yet Eileen presents a way out from that, finding something intimate and warm between two women in a repressed time. Though Eileen is not a love story, it is a film of longing. It's about loneliness and wanting to escape that, whether through love or violence or an adventure. The film concludes with an unsure smile, although what that means is left unsaid. Eileen is a film of misdirection and the unexpected, with motivations unclear and curious. It's partially about women…

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  Review by David Sims ★★★½

  thomasin needs to stop playing wounded birds

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  Review by Brian Formo ★★★

  Carol for sickos for the first half and—unless you read the book—you won’t guess what happens on their second “date.”

  The abrupt shift is interesting but the abrupt ending is unfortunate. There are elements that don’t truly align despite threatening to do so. As a potential lover/friend/matriarch, Anne Hathaway is so good in this and Ari Wegner’s camera makes every home setting look like hell on earth. Really nice musical score, too. I feel like if the back end was longer then the ending would’ve hit harder. Instead it’s a twisted lil broken wing of a movie. It soared once. Crashes at the end.

  I did read the book and I appreciate how it tones down some of the extra…

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  Review by Ethan J ★★★★ 1

  Two queens maximizing their joint slay in the absolute worst way

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★ 4

  EILEEN starts off as a conventional coming of age romance between Thomasin McKenzie & Anne Hathaway until the story takes one of the sharpest left turns I’ve ever seen a film take. Despite a mesmerizing monologue from Marin Ireland in the third act, it left the audience baffled. Loved Anne Hathaway, Ari Wegner’s photography and Thomasin McKenzie is consistently excellent but I do not believe the story successfully communicated what it wanted us to take away from it.

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★★★ 2

  Will have some yelling come on, but it works for me, especially as I roll around how it’s seemingly different final scenes actually fit the narrative of not really knowing people like you think you do. McKenzie and Hathaway are fantastic. Strong craft too.

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  Review by Trace Thurman ★★★★½ 2

  Sundance #6: Oh ho. Oh ho ho ho ho ho HO! Eileen is the sapphic prison rom-com crime drama I never knew I needed. Anne Hathaway and Thomason McKenzie slayyyyyyyyy. Marin Ireland devastates. I adored this. 

  But good lord try not to spoil yourself. I do not envy any critic who has to review this or any person who has to cut a trailer because holy moly. 😂

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  Review by matt 🔪 ★★★½

  how fake new englanders look when real massachusetts girls come at them