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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 11

  vanity fair actors roundtable gone wrong

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 27

  this is a horror film actually

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  Review by ༘ ade ༘ ★★★★

  GUYS I'M HYPERVENTILATING

  " In our family, we don't have that kind of depression. "
  " No, we just have a lot of stoic sadness. "-

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  Review by zed ★★★★ 2

  STEVEN YEUN

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  Review by Chris Feil ★★★★

  And sometimes families come together to pretend the ground isn’t crumbling beneath them because rituals demand that they do so.

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  Review by aaron ★★★★ 3

  steven yeun … you have my attention

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  Review by Aki Menzies ★★★★½ 25

  Beautiful and terrifying in exactly the right way. Makes me feel a little bit better about my own Thanksgiving.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½

  Every film made in response to 9/11 is a horror film in one way or another, but none of them — from the unbearable simulation of “United 93” to the eerie found footage of “Cloverfield” and the chilling-that-this-was-nominated-for-Best-Picture-ness of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” — have spoken the genre’s common tongue more fluently than “The Humans.” And yet, for a movie which opens with a thunderous jump-scare that it follows with another solid jolt every few minutes before ending with the year’s most pitch-black sequence of pure terror, the biggest shock of all might be that Stephen Karam’s debut feature is so conventionally scary in the first place.

  A prestigious screen adaptation of a Tony-winning play is just not the…

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  Review by George Clark ★★½ 4

  While The Humans is genuinely engaging at times, for me, it never fully reaches greatness, bordering on it but never pulling me in enough to really interest me. Writer/director Stephen Karam's arty, melancholic screen adaptation of his Tony award-winning play, is painful in both a good and bad way. The anguish of the characters is aching and heartfelt but the way it drags left me feeling cold and quite frankly unmoved by it’s conclusion. For a film so concerned about humans, their fears, dreams, and connections to one another, Karam ends up doing the very thing he should be avoiding: isolating them to the point none of them feel rememberable, thus leaving me with very little to care for. I’m sure it’s a film others will love, but for me, The Humans left me underwhelmed and unsatisfied, sadly never pulled me in the way I had hoped.

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  Review by reibureibu ★★★★ 13

  Overcomes my usual qualms with play-based films by injecting some thought into the usage of camera and composition, The Humans (terrible title, btw) succeeds at the crucial task of making a one-location environment actually interesting over its runtime, somehow benefitting from the empty space that comes with a shoddy new apartment not yet filled with one's furnishings: there is nothing to these walls besides their sheer nakedness, bluntly baring to us the worn-down nature that comes with decades of life experience. And like the space that surrounds them, the characters in here gradually strip off all exteriority, what should be a festive holiday re-union gradually descending into castigation competitions, as all good Thanksgiving dinners tend to do. It's hard to…

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  Review by nick ★★★★

  steven yeun in circular glasses, that’s CINEMA.

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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★½

  Great performances, compelling ideas and solid comedy while still being so grim but it's just missing something to really drive it home for me