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  Review by Jay ★★★★½ 9

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

  the second time in his career adam driver has screamed at his co-star “do not compare me to my father”

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★★ 23

  I hate saying “I’m at a loss for words” as a cop out when writing reviews but I can’t think of a better way to describe my feelings towards this. A dense yet perfect examination of love, what it means to love, what it means to understand, and what it means to feel alive.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 17

  someone to hold me too close/someone to hurt me too deep

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 6

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

  Marriage Story begins and ends with love.

  There's anger in between. Rage, confusion, blistering pain, bitterness, grief, and fear. There's moments of friendship that are closely followed with the remembrance of loss, remains of a marriage that once was.

  But Marriage Story begins and ends with love. For whatever was in between, whatever tore them apart, there begins the nostalgia of falling for each other. There's always love.

  And that is what makes Marriage Story the best film of the year.

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  Review by sree ★★★½ 7

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

  charlie: i won the macarthur grant!

  nicole: are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you?

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 10

  I've never even come close to being married and boy oh boy did this STILL fuck me up! Had a nice long sit alone in a room with my feelings for an hour after I left the theater.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 51

  It will mystify me, ‘till the very end, how certain pieces of art can reach people at such specifically significant times, as if spun down from the sky manually, and at a predetermined moment, by the threads of fate. How much hyperbole can one man use? Except, sadly — deeply, deeply unfortunately — these words may be the least hyperbolic I ever type. I mean every word of this diary entry with the utmost earnestness.

  It took each last ounce of energy in me not to leave the theatre; at times, I could barely bring myself to stare at the screen. At others, I realized I was forgetting to breathe. This film is far, far beyond too much: I have…

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  Review by Muriel 5

  if i was in marriage story i wouldn't divorce adam driver

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 11

  96

  What I love about Marriage Story:

  To begin, it's a movie about the pain within all people. What partners, in the midst of desolation, will do to protect their own self-interest. How their love is systematically broken down and fractured in the pursuit of monetary/property gain, control over their children, and the cold, ruthless separation of a friendship. Their anguish is lesser at the beginning, but in the midst of lawyers and outside opinions, it expands fruitlessly as they find more reasons to be petty, to ignore the sympathy they once began with. This pain is rooted in not recognizing a shattered dynamic, one seemingly beyond repair, if only for their selfish desires as individuals. What Nicole and Charlie…

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  Review by iana ★★★★½ 9

  somehow transcendental and deeply, painfully human. adam driver is raising the bar like no one else.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 5

  CIFF 2019: film #8

  “i’m sorry”
  “me too”

  an absolute stunner. every line was written with care to seamlessly blend comedy and tragedy together. it sometimes comes off as almost too polished (that SCORE!) but grounds itself once again in the realism of how fast things can go from bad to worse. adam driver is particularly good, but my favorite performance has to be laura dern, getting to stretch her legs here with material much better than what big little lies season 2 gave her

  a few key scenes in this are so dramatic that the outcome with these skilled actors going toe to toe is almost unbelievable. the calm always returns, but the thunderous dialogue is still ringing in my ears. this isn’t my favorite film of the year, but i have to admit that it’s pretty fucking close

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  Review by Jay ★★★★★ 11

  "four time oscar winner sucking on my cock"

  broke: hes referring to katharine hepburn
  woke: marriage story is set in the future and hes referring to daniel day lewis