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  Review by iana ★★★★ 9

  vanessa kirby burps for 30 minutes and she still looks ethereal it’s not FAIR she has too much power

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  Review by iana ★★★½ 9

  when the title card comes up and you realise that you've been holding your breath the entire time

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  Review by Sam Meltzer ★★★ 32

  I like to ask myself after watching a movie “Would this movie exist if it wasn’t trying to win any awards?” The simple answer with Pieces of a Woman is no. Despite its heartbreaking themes and amazingly difficult dramatic performances that are consistently impressive and riveting, something about it feels empty. It’s as if you watched these characters go through pain without much reason. I get that this movie is a vehicle for the actors to really do their thing but if you wanna make a truly great movie you gotta have more meat to it. The story is fairly one-note and none of the characters feel multi-layered, leaving the movie to have few reasons to exist besides getting Vanessa Kirby (and maybe Ellen Burstyn) an Oscar.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½

  An acting coach's favorite movie.

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  Review by Jitender ★★★★ 4

  "Time heals all wounds"
                           - Guy at the Church
                                                 - Benny Safdie

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  Review by john ★★★ 7

  everyday i am thankful i have zero desire to procreate

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 6

  kirby: full loaded

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★ 29

  Despite liking director Kornél Mundruczó's White God, there were too many problematic things about this film. Ellen Burstyn plays the mother of Martha (Vanessa Kirby). Despite giving us top tier acting, the character: rich bitch who likes to blame everyone was repulsive and entitled. Vanessa Kirby gives a performance of a lifetime. In the right circumstances, this movie could have propelled her even further.

  However, co-star Shia LaBeouf's presence is repulsive from start to finish. In real life, several of LaBeouf's partners have claimed he is abusive. In addition, LaBeouf's character sickeningly puts his hand on Martha's leg and tries to force her hand on his member, before sticking his hand down her pants. In addition, we are forced to…

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  Review by George Clark ★★★ 23

  Directed by Kornél Mundruczó and starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Benny Safdie and Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman is an incredibly grounded and intensely personal storyline that follows a young mother's home birth that ends in tragedy.

  This is, completely, Vanessa Kirby's film. She's utterly outstanding in the leading role with her performance standing out as one of the best I've seen in quite a while. She draws us inside Martha's mental state to the point it feels like we're sitting inside her mind looking out at the world through her eyes. She conveys the confusion, anger, and desolation of what her character is going through with immense force that, sitting there in the pick black, stunned me to…

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  Review by Nick ★½ 21

  Pieces of a Woman is probably one of the worst movies I've seen in quite a while. It's a Lifetime movie wrapped with arthouse tropes, featuring good scenes that are simply too scarce too little. Considering its deeply uncomfortable subject matter, it has all the advantages to be an emotional hard hitter, only for it to end up as one of the most tedious experiences to sit through this Oscar season.

  Pieces of a Woman starts with its infamous one-shot birth scene, which is relatively the best sequence out of its over 2-hour runtime. We watch Vanessa Kirby as she goes through the agony of giving birth, which obviously is not something Kirby herself has gone through in real life…

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  Review by former movie enjoyer ★★★

  vanessa kirby's back must be ruined beyond repair after carrying the entire weight of this (very long, very draining) movie

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 6

  i really don’t know how to put this experience into words... it’s raw, emotional and utterly devastating but manages to do that rare, special thing where it completely breaks you yet gives the time for healing and i just think that’s really kinda beautiful! also vanessa kirby the academy award is yours i will have it no other way!!!