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  Review by ciara ★★★★½ 59

  this is the first time willem dafoe has not looked like the human embodiment of evil he was truly willem dafriend in this

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 9

  “You know why this is my favorite tree? Because it tipped over, and it’s still growing.”

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  Review by truman ★★★★½ 14

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

  how did they get in the park though

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  Review by kevinyang ★★★★ 21

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

  I so badly wanted to give this a 4.5 upon re-watch, but there's just something missing in that middle stretch that prevents a bumping of the rating. Still easily one of my favorites of 2017, and I'd like to touch upon a few additional things I really appreciated:

  
1. I really love the camerawork, especially as it relates to the interaction between the kids' world and the adults' world. There are several moments where Baker and Zabe choose to shoot the kids' heads from behind as a conflict plays out immediately in front of them, e.g. when Scooty watches Halley and Ashley fighting or when Moonee and Jancey walk towards the Child Protective Services people the first time. The heads…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 8

  american honey jr

  (but i also don’t wanna minimize this with a joke because??? it made me feel every emotion at once for a full 115 minutes)

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  Review by pilot ★★★★ 5

  once i was in an elevator with Willem Dafoe and i didn’t know what to say so when i got off at my floor i winked at him as the doors closed

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  Review by Jordan Horowitz ★★★★★ 8

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

  This is a masterpiece. It’s everything I want from cinema. Bold and beautiful and angry and deep and hopeful and true. 

  The moment at the end of the movie when the format switches (right before they head into Disney) is one of the more profound moments I’ve had in a theater in some time. As a filmmaker, I knew where this was going. I understood immediately the literal theft of the Disney footage that was to come. And in that moment, form was married to content  was married to character was married to story in a truly transcendent way, and it shook me to the core. When the picture cut to black, I broke the fuck down.

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  Review by karsten ★★★★★ 20

  35mm at Music Box (Sean Baker there in person)
  Personally told Sean Baker afterwards that I wouldn’t just log it as “watched at music box”. He laughed! Nothing new to say besides I never noticed how great and smooth the editing is.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 17

  the most American
  film of the decade??
  I've been transformed
  back into a small child.

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★★ 6

  so honest it almost hurts. the film equivalent of finding buried treasure

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 4

  Extra half-star just for Dafoe and the birds.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 9

  Sean Baker's TANGERINE follow-up is an absolute barn-burner, brimming with life and noise and neglect and an all-timer of a performance by Willem Dafoe. Baker definitely finding his groove... endlessly smart move to flip the script on his breakthrough and apply the same energy to a gorgeously shot 35mm slice of Americana that reeks of POST TENEBRAS LUX for a reason. A movingly episodic story of the "missing homeless" living week-to-week in a godawful motel just outside of the Magic Kingdom, the film builds a remarkably comprehensive portrait of life on the margins - and the systems & cycles that keep people there.