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  Review by noen ★★★½ 4

  I wish I could have guitar lessons online with Joseph Gordon-Levitt pls god

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  Review by Mike Flanagan ★★★★½ 4

  What a wonderful movie. John Carney is one of my favorite filmmakers, and this is one of his best efforts. My face hurt from smiling so much. As usual with Carney, a funny, tender, and uplifting slice of life that celebrates human beings and music in equal measure. Highly, highly recommend.

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  Review by Jade talks too much🤐☃️🥃 ★★★★½ 12

  Amazing movie if you like Music🎸,drinking wine🍷 & Irish Accents🇮🇪.
  I do! 💚🤍🧡

  My crush on Eve Hewson continues❤️. Cast her in everything!

  Pretty sure John Carney only made this to trash talk James Blunt.🤬

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  Review by flynn ★★★★½ 8

  i have horrible anxiety and usually when i watch movies, it’s hard to take my mind away from all my racing thoughts. john carney somehow takes me out of that and puts me in a place of joy and laughter and feeling like for at least 90 minutes, i can slow down and be present. 

  flora and son is an absolute gem and a truly heartwarming film. i cried on multiple occasions and not even out of sadness, just out of genuine love for the movie and THE MUSIC!!!! wow the music. 

  i got to interview the cast and john carney before and when i say i have never been more nervous to talk to anyone than i was to…

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★½ 3

  I love that John Carney loves music. It’s power and it’s influence— the way it can connect family and strangers. So even if this movie spreads itself a little thin, I watched it with a huge smile on my face and will continue to look forward to anything Carney makes.

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  Review by nolan ★★★ 5

  got genuinely jumpscared by one of those joseph gordon-levitt transitions

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  Review by Kevflix And Chill ★★★½ 9

  I absolutely adore John Carney’s Sing Street and Once. In a lot of ways, his newest film Flora and Son feels exactly like a mashup of those two movies. You get a couple collaborating on songs together in their new “relationship,” and you have a school-aged boy trying to win over his crush with his music. While the story is charming and Eve Hewson is delightful as Flora, it was lacked a the musical hook that “Falling Slowly” or “Drive it Like You Stole It” provided for those aforementioned films. There was no tune or melody that transformed into an ear worm as soon as credits rolled. The only song that was stuck in my head afterwards was Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides…

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★ 2

  FLORA AND SON is another feel-good winner from John Carney. A messy Irish single mother, wonderfully played by Eve Hewson, takes up online guitar lessons with a charming LA-based Joseph Gordon-Levitt and learns how to take control of her life and re-connect with her son. Exactly what you would expect: Funny, heartfelt with a catchy songs and a proper use of the internet to connect and share art. What more could you want?

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  Review by Mitchell Beaupre ★★★½ 4

  There’s a scene in this where Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character talks about playing a song he created for someone and you can see in their eyes when you’re playing it that they start to glaze over as they’re smiling with their mouth but not with their eyes or heart. That feeling of putting all of yourself into something, of wanting so badly to move people and to be great, and you end up being just… fine. Not bad, not a failure, but just… fine.

  It’s such a devastating scene, so brilliantly articulating this very specific fear and sense of devastation that can happen. It’s something I feel a lot as someone who writes, who wants to be a really great writer…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★½

  John Carney’s movies wear you down like a pop song you hear once on the radio and find unbearable, then hear again and realize is pretty catchy, then find yourself humming in the shower, then decide to belt out at karaoke at the top of your lungs.

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  Review by evilstyless ★★★½ 3

  A Star is Born with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★★★ 1

  Just wonderful. John Carney genuinely believes that creative connection can save your life. It’s Once for the Zoom Generation. And Eve Hewson is fantastic.