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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★½ 15

  and the academy award goes to alan kim in his little cowboy boots

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½ 23

  I keep seeing the word "tender" slapped on every review for this and I....okay, yeah, I get it now. In a year full of beautiful film scores, this absolutely takes the cake. Both that and the cinematography feel SO dreamy. They simultaneously capture the hazy perspective of the parents, the old age of the grandmother, and the childlike wonder for both children.

  Minari is such a specific movie full of specific scenes that all do specific things. What a vague way of describing a film's specificity. Essentially, it's unforgettable. I miss movie theatres.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 25

  Ugh, couldn't stop crying through the entire second half of this.

  For reasons I don't really understand, I don't remember most of my childhood and can't recall much about it without having something to remind me of my own experiences. It's always a very weird sensation when something does this because it's never what I expect, and I was not expecting it to happen several times while watching this! Very unifying to see so many of my own immigrant child experiences reflected in the immigrant child experiences of someone from an entirely different country whose family moved to an entirely different part of the US. Brought on a lot of tears. Can't think too much about the aspect of faith…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 19

  “i’ll take care of us”

  the 2020 film version of the 🥺 emoji. this is so special

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 10

  steven yeun is the most compelling chicken sexer i’ve seen since gonzo

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  Review by aaron ★★★★½ 2

  yes grandma you're right, minari is wonderful

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  Review by james💫 ★★★★½ 9

  when minari wins best original song for “minari, minari... wonderful, wonderful” then the world will know peace

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 15

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

  There’s just SO much incredible stuff about this movie that Will Patton’s performance/character feels like it’s never part of the discussion and that’s a shame. He’s just so fucking good. Every scene of his is perfect. The interplay of religion and class and race and immigration in this movie is handled so so so deftly and plays out without feeling like a heavy-handed drama that installs a cruel white character to exist as a synecdoche for all racial conflict. In fact, there’s no racial conflict here. There’s a small moment of ignorance in the middle that is clearly meant to play as childhood ignorance, and that’s it. It would be far too easy to let race stand out as the…

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  Review by oppie ★★★★★ 9

  ANYONE ELSE CRYING OVER A BUNCH OF PLANTS ?!?!@??@?@?@?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!

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  Review by Aneesh Chaganty 9

  I saw my dad. I saw my mom. I saw my grandma. I saw my brother. I saw me. 💯

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½ 15

  Told with the rugged tenderness of a Flannery O’Connor novel but aptly named for a resilient Korean herb that can grow wherever it’s planted, Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical “Minari” is a raw and vividly remembered story of two simultaneous assimilations; it’s the story of a family assimilating into a country, but also the story of a man assimilating into his family.

  Jacob Yi (Steven Yeun) and his wife Monica (“Sea Fog” star Han Yeri) emigrated from Korea together in the early ’70s, but — after nearly a decade of scraping by as chicken sexers in California — they arrive at the Arkansas trailer home he bought for their family in separate cars. Monica drives the kids: A stoic pre-teen girl…

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★★ 5

  Obviously, I’m a mess. So beautiful and moving without feeling manipulative anyway I’m going to cry and drink a Mountain Dew I guess.