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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 30

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

  Just over four years ago, in my senior year of high school, I was driving home from my part-time job, speeding down the local highway trying to get home as fast as possible so I could maybe finish watching a movie before I needed to get some sleep. It couldn't have been any later than 11pm but it was dark & dreary enough that my mind keeps trying to convince me it was closer to 1am. Regardless, I didn't get home as fast as I thought I would. about halfway home I noticed shining spots on the road ahead, at the time I thought my eyes were fucking with me but it didn't take long for me to realize my headlights…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 5

  a grueling but unexpected look at how trauma can inspire extreme waves of selflessness and selfishness. maybe it’s about this, and many other things too, making clear philosophical arguments while also leaving so much room for interpretation that its trajectory is often skating on the edge of aimless discomfort. a coming of age story so crushingly intimate until it pulls back and reveals how insignificant coming of age actually is. often lisa is the focus of a scene but the sounds happening around her drown her out completely as if she didn’t matter to begin with

  after it ended i realized that in scope it feels like a kaufman film with a more subtle approach to its subject matter by…

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  Review by preston ★★★★★ 5

  Held me spellbound for three hours, if nothing else (extended cut, fwiw). 25th HOUR-ish - New York movie, moral drama about Doing the Right Thing, symphonic score over jagged rhythms - also Desplechin-ish for the sweep and scale, but more ambitious than either: an epic of human disconnection, based around the fact that language is such an imperfect way of trying to connect - emotion is easier, but we lose it as we grow older ("It is Margaret you mourn for"), and of course Art is the best way of all, hence the ending - and around the fact that people are quite simply separate, everyone has a point of view (even the kid who thinks Shakespeare was talking about…

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  Review by Adam Friedland 4

  Umm Ok Karen

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  Review by nadine smith ★★★★½ 2

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

  [whispering to date while watching Margaret when Anna Paquin first appears on the screen] That's not Margaret

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  Review by dylan gelula ★★★★★ 2

  I wish all movies were this. A play

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★½ 1

  86/100

  [Originally written on my blog.]

  Odds are we'll never see a fully realized version of Lonergan's insanely ambitious formal experiment, but this "extended cut" (not "director's cut", please note) gets plenty close enough to thrill. To my surprise, it's not simply a matter of restoring tangential (but nonetheless crucial) scenes that he was forced to remove—turns out he had an elaborate, cacophonous sound design planned, of which there's barely a hint in the theatrical version. Sadly, that element still seems half-finished, becoming increasingly sporadic and clumsy as the film progresses; I'm not entirely sure whether certain bold, alienating effects, like having opera music and house music playing simultaneously during Paul's first scene, were what was intended. But this is…

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  Review by Griffin Newman ★★★★★ 4

  My mom and I went to see the extended Lonergan cut at The Quad. We held hands at the end and cried. (That second part isn't true.)

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  Review by Muriel ★★★★★

  i relate to this film because i too would like to lose my virginity to america's favorite dirtbag roman roy

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★★ 2

  Why wasn't her name Margaret

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  Review by Hari Nef 2

  seismic. my mom says i always love movies that are like plays

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★ 8

  My theory about the overlapping dialogue, which often drowns out the main characters, is that it's meant to minimize Lisa's experience - to emphasize that her's is just one story in a city of millions. But I'm curious what other theories are out there...