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  Review by kayla ★★★★½ 9

  I wonder if Natalie Portman ever thinks about how badass it was that she outacted everyone around her at age 13

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  Review by filmscores ★

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

  how do i erase a movie from my memory? the sexualization of mathilda made me very uncomfortable and listening to a 12 year old talk about wanting to “have her first time” with a man quadruple her age is disgusting. not even to mention the sex scene in the script that got cut. did some research on luc besson and found out he impregnated a 16 year old while he was 32.... go figure. man i don’t have time for this shit

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  Review by Dom ★★★★½ 3

  I was intensely worried throughout for the wellbeing of his plant.

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  Review by aliyah ★★ 11

  thirteen year old natalie portman accomplished more with this film than i will with my entire life

  
  EDIT: so i got creepy vibes throughout this film and was really uncomfortable with the sexualisation of mathilda. anyway, i just found out that there was a sex scene in the original cut and that the relationship between leon and mathilda was loosely based off of a real relationship that luc besson had which makes me feel sick for putting that aside so that i could enjoy the film. whilst i enjoyed the acting and cinematography immensely this is not something that i can overlook so i’m not quite sure what to rate this. i’ve also found out that the dress up scene and the conversation about losing her virginity were removed from the american version, which makes sense as to why most people don’t get the same vibe as people who have seen the international version.

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  Review by kowalski 🫀 ★★★

  if natalie portman wants to kill every man who sexualized her at age 12 she should be allowed to do that

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  Review by amaya ★ 11

  could have been rated higher but they had to go ahead and sexualize mathilda

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 3

  I HAVEN'T GOT TIME FOR THIS MICKEY MOUSE BULLSHIT

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 8

  I sure love Gary Oldman in this. Other than that I think it's mostly just dull. But what always starts to gnaw on me every time I try this again is all the corny affectation: Leon's thing for milk, his gawk-eyed awe at Gene Kelly (calm down, I love SINGIN' IN THE RAIN too, but it's cheap shorthand here) or Danny Aiello's cardboard goombah, or the domestic montage set to Bjork. Comparisons to something like Melville don't hold up; none of these characters has any actual inner life. Leon's childlike presentation seems like a cop out to avoid any hint of desire, to nullify any general queasiness you might have about his plainly taboo relationship with Mathilda. When any authority…

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri 11

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

  I simply do NOT know about this one, chief!!!

  the performances are great but yeeeeeesh. 
  something about seeing this for the first time then looking at the “Personal life” section of Maïwenn’s wikipedia page felt BAD. 

  also! spoiler spoiler spoiler but— the plant’s going to die. it’s a tropical plant and she’s planting it in the ground! so. hopefully someone tells her.

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  Review by rudi ✨ ★★★★½ 2

  baby Natalie Portman being trained to be an assassin by a soft, Italian hit man... I’m sold

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  Review by eli thee skull ½ 6

  i loathe this movie because i absolutely loved it when i was a young teenager. it was one of my favorite action thrillers n a big reference for my not yet cinema addicted lil mind . i fell in love w the dynamics of child n badass duo, i loved it cause i saw mathilda as leon's "fashion-savvy" sidekick. but then i made the mistake of growing up n finding out the director got a 15yo pregnant before marrying her, which is what inspired the film in the first place. even worse, he planned to turn reality into fiction by making this a goddamn romance with all the sexually charged interactions between the characters, keeping in mind that mathilda is…

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  Review by Arlo McLean ★★★★ 3

  Mathilda is my actual fashion icon, real queen right here.