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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 1

  GIVE HARRY DEAN STANTON HIS FUCKING OSCAR.

  “Lucky” was never the first word that came to mind when you saw Harry Dean Stanton. On the contrary, it always seemed like he had survived something terrible. Even in the movies he shot during the ’60s and ’70s, it already looked like 90 years of life had swept through him like a windstorm, leaving just enough skin on his bones to keep the cigarette smoke from blowing out through his teeth. Stanton wasn’t cast as lucky men, but as men who appeared to have been sucked dry at some point along the way. He was typecast that way from birth, a living synonym for emptiness, and his hollowed out performance in “Paris, Texas” would eventually seal the deal.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★ 10

  just sobbing... love you
  longtime, Mr. Stanton;
  rest peacefully, good sir.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★½

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  MKE Film Fest #2

  The most fitting final film in the history of the movies. A work of failing bodies and the minds which wrestle with timid physicality.

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  Review by LeSchroeck ★★★★

  I don't have any idea what Harry Dean Stanton was singing on that fiesta. But it made my cry.

  Some might say, that Stanton could or would consider himself lucky to leave this world with such a wise, relaxed, laconic & melancholic movie. Or we can consider ourselves lucky that he did.

  Lucky would answer them: this doesn't change anything for him in this scenario. He's still dead.

  And if this doesn't say enough about this wonderful little film: David Lynch is talking about the inspiring power of a tortoise.

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  Review by Laura Saladino ★★★★

  The thought of David Lynch owning a tortoise named President Roosevelt who runs away brings me so much joy. 
  This whole movie is a joy.

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  Review by truman ★★★★½ 1

  GIVE HARRY DEAN STANTON HIS FUCKING OSCAR ALREADY

  and while we’re at it: john carrol lynch, david lynch, and the writers.

  i’ve been dealing with my own existential and nihilistic thoughts for the past couple weeks, trying to figure out death, but lucky has it right. you just have to smile.

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★★½ 13

  Is realism a thing?

  Have you ever started a movie you know nothing about and before it’s over you’ve already ordered the blu-ray? Yeah, me too.

  What an outstanding character study by one of the greatest character actors of all-time. Lucky serves as a celebration and swan-song of the legendary Harry Dean Stanton. If only we could all be so Lucky.

  BONUS POINTS to David Lynch and his Roosevelt. Although, it’s scientifically impossible to steal a movie from Harry Dean Stanton, Lynch gives it one hell of a try.

  If it’s meant to be, I’ll see him again.
  He knows where I am, and I’m leaving the gate open.

  
  Cinematic Time Capsule - 2017 Ranked

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  Review by jourdain searles ★★★★ 1

  david lynch does a monologue about how much he loves and respects his tortoise and i’m weeping!

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  A wise and wistful love letter from one remarkable character actor to another, John Carroll Lynch’s “Lucky” returns 90-year-old Harry Dean Stanton to the dusty desert environs he shuffled through in 1984’s “Paris, Texas,” and offers the rawboned legend one of the best roles he’s had since. Beginning as a broad comedy before blossoming into a wry meditation on death and all the things we leave behind (a transition that kicks into gear when one of Stanton’s old friends shows up and steals the show), Lynch’s directorial debut is a wisp of a movie, blowing across the screen like a tumbleweed, but it’s also the rare portrait of mortality that’s both fun and full of life.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½

  65/100

  A.V. Club review. Not since Altman kicked right after Prairie Home Companion have we seen such a perfect cinematic epitaph.

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  Review by Buddy O ★★★★

  (Existential crisis intensifies)

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 2

  Was fortunate enough to catch this film. It's a character piece. The movie was worth checking out. Harry Dean Stanton will live forever in our hearts.