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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 4

  My friends and I are approaching the age of these characters, and on the one hand we’re not as rich and successful, but on the other hand I guarantee we are more fun to hang out with

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  Review by Sam Meltzer ★★ 3

  I feel like my expectations were too high but this was disappointing. It wasn’t bad, it actually had some great entertainment value and fun performances but with what point? Seriously though all the actors in the cast are enough to keep you even somewhat engaged. I love the 80s feel with the music, color palette and clothing. I just feel like this movie was pointless and kinda forgettable. It didn’t really go anywhere and the movie needed an extra “oomph” to get to that great level. So overall it’s a fun time with an awesome cast and a great 80s feel, but lacks sufficient strong elements to make it a great movie. Too forgettable and doesn’t really go anywhere.

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  Review by Kristhian Morales ★★ 10

  A movie ostensibly about a group of college friends getting together for a few days after the suicide of a common friend, The Big Chill is really about the upper middle class in the early years of Reaganism. A more vanilla subject is difficult to imagine and yet the movie intensely believes that the pseudo-problems of the central group are endlessly fascinating. In theory, the subject of middle class men and women feeling bad about their very first-world problems (mostly out of boredom) isn't an intrinsically worthless topic, but it becomes really hard to care when the characters lack any awareness of their privilege. Sadly, the movie itself is equally blind to the larger culture (except for the soundtrack, which is used to add color to an otherwise mediocre production but comes off disingenuous). Otherwise competently acted by a stellar ensemble including Jeff Goldblum, Glenn Close, and Kevin Kline.

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  Review by David Weigel ★½ 2

  I see where the makers of "Suicide Squad" got the idea for a loud, obvious soundtrack that over-emphasizes every scene of a nothing movie.

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  Review by Kyle Amato ★★½ 4

  Sorry your friend died and you’re boring in a nice house

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  Review by a k ½ 5

  say what u will about godard but at least weekend had the foresight to condemn all the boomer sellouts in the big chill to a cannibal holocaust.

  by this point the film's rep has sunk to where pointing out why it's bad is like shooting fish in a barrel but it's still galling in a film with no black characters that there's a conversation where a lawyer says she left public defending because all her clients were (cw) scum of the earth rapists, another character asks who she thought she'd be defending, and a third says bobby and huey, ending there in the closest the film gets to evoking a lost radical past but signaling instead that no one involved…

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  Review by DallasFrance ★★★½ 1

  For approximately 55 minutes, The Big Chill was a pleasant surprise. Dark humor! A dash of Goldblum! Consistently inappropriate Meg Tilly! 

  And then it happened. The King of the Kringe Scenes. The white people in the kitchen awkwardly dancing to Motown montage. At least seven close-ups of white butts switching and swaying to “Wait Till the Midnight Hour.” Kevin Kline doing the hop with a fake guitar thing during a song that in no way features the guitar in a fashion where the guitarist would be doing the hop with the guitar thing. 

  The question to end all questions is: did The Big Chill birth the dancing awkwardly around an island in the kitchen to mediocre music montage trend? If it didn’t invent it, it perfected it....And by perfected it, I mean Mary Kay Place just thrust the side of her butt into the side of William Hurt’s butt. Kill me now.

  
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  Review by The Spork Guy ★★★★★ 5

  Ok look, I can't stand yuppies anymore than the next guy, but the noticeable amount of distain for this film has me a little baffled. I found the entire experience to be(oddly enough)overwhelmingly enjoyable. Films that can keep my attention span this well exercised through nothing but well-written dialogue alone are godsends if anything. It was genuinely funny(Jeff Goldblum and a few bats are to thank for much of that), has tremendous editing aesthetic and one of the best opening credit sequences I've ever seen. A rather unbelievable side-plot involving a surrogate sperm donor adds a small bump in the road, but it's nothing I couldn't look passed, considering all the TV shows and sci-fi films that've gotten away with…

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  Review by Adam Nayman ★★½ 2

  I sort of hate this very enjoyable movie and watch it every two years to make sure

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  Review by kj ★★★ 3

  i’m going to rewatch this in a few years, and i’m quite sure i’ll either love it and relate to whatever just happened or just completely hate it

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  Review by kevintporter ★★★½ 1

  This is every weekend trip to Big Bear I've ever taken with my crew. Is Kevin Kline the King Kevin? Only Bacon would come close I think. One nice fun thing about both Kevin Bacon and Kevin Kline is that they've been married to their wives for forever.

  A dumb thing I do is make a false equivocation of lengthy marriage to virtue, which of course monstrous people are married to the same person all the time! You don't know anything about these peoples lives really! And it has nothing to do with their work! Are Leo's movies any less good bc he hasn't been with a woman older than 25 more than 3 weeks probably not?? What does it matter. That said I hope Kevin + Kyra and Kevin + Phoebe are very happy. Three and a half stars!

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  Review by 𝙿𝚊𝚘𝚕𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝙶𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚗 | 🇮🇹 ★★★★½

  After losing sight of each other for fifteen years, a group of friends who had attended the same college at the time of the youth protest, reunite for the funeral of a friend who committed suicide. It will be an opportunity to spend a weekend together during which to take stock, solicit clarifications and re-tie the broken threads of an ancient bond. Lawrence Kasdan, here in the guise of both director and screenwriter, stages a light and at the same time melancholy fresco on the erosion of the ideals of a generation that wanted to change the world but has been changed by the world. A script calibrated in the smallest details, as well as very attentive to the emotional…