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  Review by Wes ★★★★★ 5

  so if im understanding this correctly: xavier dolan can drop one of the greatest films ever made in his early 20s, meanwhile in my early 20s the highlight of my week is i got to try the new taco bell nacho fries

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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 2

  at this point i'd watch paint drying for 3 hours if it was made by xavier dolan

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 15

  This is like Transamerica but twice as long and somehow more offensive. The trans character is shown to be not a human being at all but a brooding, stalking burden on her cis partner. There is nothing about this film that shows any respect for trans people; there is nothing about this film that shows any respect for any people, really. It's just nearly three hours of a bad relationship between two ciphers, one of whom is superficially explained to us to be trans. It hits a few cliches and then spends half the film emphasizing her "masculine" qualities just to drive home how terrible it must be for Fred to have this person in love with her.

  Trans people…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 22

  In his early twenties, Dolan already had the directorial power to turn a simple hallway sequence into an incredible display of human emotion.

  So many faces.
  Throughout this whole film,
  so many beautifully photographed faces.

  I can see what he means when he says he's more inspired by photography than film; it shows in the way that he captures imagery as if he's trying to communicate moments to his audience, moments that build on top of one another into fragments of lives.

  And then there's that second in the film where, if you know his appearance, you see little Xavier show up in an uncredited role and he looks, well... just that, little. So young, yet already so brilliant. I…

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  Review by "clem" ★★★★½ 4

  Antoine Olivier Pilon blowing a kiss at Laurence singlehandedly ended every academy award winner for best actor in a leading role

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 1

  how does xavier dolan do it ??? there are absolutely no words .......... let’s just sit with what we saw

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  Review by maya ★★★★½ 2

  can xavier dolan direct my life

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  Review by Andi 💓 ★★★★ 4

  I think it was about a week ago today when I realized how I’m a 22-year-old “cinephile” who has a year more to go before graduating. This means I spend half of my time parked in front of my computer screen and the other half parked in front of the television screen in our living room whenever my parents aren’t around in case a sex scene comes on. Long story short, I was having an existential crisis. WHICH IS WHY IT IS SO FUCKING PERFECT THAT I WATCHED THIS MOVIE, MADE BY A 21 OR 22-YEAR-OLD XAVIER DOLAN WHILE MY OWN 22 YEAR OLD (BROKE) ASS WAS WATCHING THIS ON MUBI BECAUSE MUBI!! WAS!! FREE!! FOR 24 HOURS. 😭    …

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  Review by aja ★★★★

  xavier dolan's got me so far up his ass it's ridiculous

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  Review by nick ★★★★★ 6

  Laurence Anyways is a transgender woman's resilient journey of self-discovery and exploring her own version of romance through pain and heartbreaks. Compared to Xavier Dolan's other works, it's for sure his least self-indulgent, and most heartfelt one, which makes it my absolute favorite of his filmography.

  Laurence Anyways is unorthodox, not only in its applaudable representation of transgender experience, but in its depiction of a transgender woman's lesbian romance with another cisgender woman, and the inevitable challenges it poses, which is so rarely, almost never made into the big screen for a fairly mainstream production.

  On top of Dolan's usual stylish visual delivery coupled with pop culture, Laurence Anyways is refreshingly epic in size, detailing a story that spans ten…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★½ 2

  pretty stunningly big-hearted, not to mention gorgeous. i've been resistant to Dolan in the past but this is a real jump for him aesthetically, much more confident and very up front about wearing his influences (i particularly liked all the CLOCKWORK ORANGE-y wide-angle symmetry). and while i try very hard not to be an ignorant person this pierced my white straight male privilege in spots i hadn't previously considered, so not to sound glib but this was both entertaining and informative. really terrific.

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  Review by Lexi C.M.K. Turner ★ 11

  Shallow, derivative and deeply transphobic, Laurence Anyways is one of the primary testaments to exactly why cisgender people should never be allowed to make films with a trans storyline.