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  Review by Jim Laczkowski ★★★★★ 7

  If someone were to point out my favorite thing(s) to read, even more than a great novel, it would be essays about something that affected them so deeply that they felt compelled to write about it. It can be short, or it can be 20 pages long. A great author of this approach would be Lester Bangs, who wrote beautifully indulgent music reviews in such an intensely personal way that were so resonant, that for the right reader, you might want to hug the guy for articulating exactly what music can really mean in a way that you’ve been trying to express yourself. I certainly didn’t always agree with Bangs, but I always identified with how insanely wonderful the experience…

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  Review by Laura ★★★ 3

  gonna have my main character moment the next time i make muffins by leaning by head against the oven as they bake

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  Review by The Reel House ★★★★ 8

  “I want to rape you with a pair of scissors.” 

  I went into this film for Seth Rogen. Rogen is honestly one of my idols, I’m a huge fan of his comedy and I think his career is absolutely insane. He’s a great actor, director and is an extremely successful producer. I also have a huge infatuation for actors who’re known for comedy but then take a surprising dramatic role and they knock it out of the park. I’ve already seen a few of Rogen’s other dramatic performances e.g. ‘Funny People’ and ‘Steve Jobs’ and he is absolutely fantastic so I was extremely excited to watch this movie. 

  The acting by everyone is terrific. Michelle Williams headlines the picture and…

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  Review by chavel ★★★★★ 5

  “You seem restless. In a kind of permanent way.”

  I'm sorry, but move over Ingmar Bergman because writer-director Sarah Polley with Take This Waltz made the best marriage film I've seen. Yes, Waltz skirts the oft-explored infidelity issue, but this one is about how even the thought and fleeting fantasy of sleeping with someone else can have a paralyzing power over you until the thoughts themselves become its own drug.

  Michelle Williams plays Margot, a woman who has probably been a very good person for 30 years of her life and then chooses one critical month to be bad. And she changes too radically all because of it. Williams is an actress whom can play anything, a famous person or…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★ 2

  i think rogen and williams are really good in this and polley locates something intriguing between the colorful/musical warmth of her style and the messy, ugly decisions she let's her characters make but unfortunately i've never quite been able to fully buy the major one here. it's not even that it's not realistic or interesting to depict her making a shitty choice and then reckoning with that, you just never actually feel the pull she does towards insanely generic toronto guy #3 that results in her making it and i think a good portion of this movie assumes that you do. with the exception of kirby's character however it's pretty effective at alternating between the specificity and broadness of these relationships and i like the part where they go to a screening of mon oncle at the royal.

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  Review by Chris Feil ★★★★½

  This is why I don’t talk to strangers on planes

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  Review by Roberta ★★★★

  🚨WHEN WILL MICHELLE WILLIAMS STOP MAKING SAD MOVIES🚨

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  Review by eely ★★★½ 2

  no room for anything else in my head anymore besides the luke kirby take this waltz sex montage

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★½

  A really peculiar window of attraction, loyalty and illusions is drawn out. It’s predictable and formulaic until it’s not: colours burst and seduction crumbles, bodies are shot in a really unnecessarily but fascinatingly stark proximity.

  Michelle Williams is terrific in a surprising way. Her character juggles an extremely pathetic facade with a tender, hurting and uncertain core that makes this a much richer understanding of love, and what we don’t know about it, than it seems.

  I keep changing my mind about whether it’s really smart and heartbreaking, pushing down a lot of stiff cliches and savouring the instanteneity of attraction without sacrificing any of its butterflies of the moment - or whether it’s just all a bit gimmicky, a…

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  Review by Lise ★★½ 2

  I like what Sarah Polley wanted to do with this film.

  I like that she tried to display that je ne sais quoi that exists between couples, those moments that can only come into existence when two personalities live together, those moments that you can't recreate in a relationship with someone else. It is a difficult thing to capture on film when you think about it. That might be why Polley choose to focus on the silly games Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) played. The way we have of being silly with our partners is probably the most distinguishing thing about partnerships. The exact type of silliness can't be transported, as is clearly demonstrated when Margot spends time…

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  Review by Raul Marques ★★★★½ 1

  What a strange, miraculous little picture.

  It seems to belong to the same category of nice indie dramedies that although competent are categorically inessential and end up quickly forgotten after the next one comes out - and according to all the lukewarm reviews it's exactly what it is - but upon a mood-appropriate watch reveals itself to be this terrifically peculiar array of literary, theatrical and cinematic language that's as profoundly poignant as potentially alienating.

  It will jump from a realism-bound, carefully orchestrated unbroken shot of a common affair, to these impossibly eloquent monologues about, for example, the fear of having fear and struggling with not letting yourself succumb to momentaneous melancholy (which, damn), and later go on these magical…

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  Review by eely ★★★★

  suffice to say that if luke kirby lived across the street from me I would be riding his rickshaw every single night.