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  Review by Gert Van de Ven ★★★★★ 9

  Every moment you're not smiling during this movie, you're probably laughing...

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  Review by Wood ★★★★★

  I find it hard to believe this super rich paraplegic that's into extreme sports had never tried marijuana prior to hiring his one black friend.

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  Review by Stephen Gillespie ★ 39

  I like to think that if this was released now, it would be torn apart by audiences, rather than just a few critics. I like to think it would be roundly rejected and would inspire frequent think pieces that were also full of recommendations of what you should watch instead.

  But then I remember Green Book won best picture and that this film’s overt popularity is because it gives the people what they want. It gives them the stereotype of Blackness they expect and parades it for their amusement while also promoting a world in which ‘we can all get along’. A world underpinned by harmful stereotypes and damaging dynamics, and consistent othering.

  Here is an illustrative thing that happens…

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  Review by Buddy O ★★★★★ 4

  Film #36 of "The December Catch Up".

  5 minutes in I knew this film would be great.
  15 minutes in I knew this film would make my top 10 of 2012.

  Fantastic in every way possible, I urge anyone who hasn't seen this yet to do so.

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  Review by kayla ★★★★½ 1

  All other friendships are invalid

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  Review by issy 🥝 ★★★★★ 1

  ohhhhhhhhhh my heart. ohhhhh my damn heart. ohhhhh man. oooh it hurts. ohhh its been through so much. ooh god. ohhhh god. ohh the teenage mutant ninja turtles joke, ohhh the birthday party scene ohhh the earth wind and fire, ohhhh driss laughing at the german play ohhhh my soul. my young, foolish, loving soul. ohhhh the ocean. oh jesus the PAINTING. oh my heart, doctor. doctor pleas. my hear MY FUCKING HEART

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  Review by roby ★★★★½

  goddamn it, sometimes movies can just be good vibes and nothing else.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★½ 29

  Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.53

  It is an astonishing accomplishment that this film isn't a big, sappy, melodramatic mess. What it is, though, is one of the most heartwarming and genuinely funny films I've ever seen.

  The story can only be based on true events, because if it had been thought up it would have been a cliché. The writer's hand does show through some static in the plot, but it doesn't detract anything from what the film is really about, the unexpected friendship between two polar opposites.

  As trite as stories about this basest human connection are, when they are told as well as they are here, they are irresistible. It has everything to do with the…

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  Review by Marianna Neal ★★★★ 4

  My friend has been persistently telling me I need to watch this film for the past 3 years (at least 3, probably more like 5). Well, I watched, Tania! And I CRIED!! OK?! ARE YOU HAPPY?! Making me cry with your great movie suggestions. How dare you!

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  Review by Auteur ★ 39

  There are few things more repulsive to me than watching a French film that wants so desperately to be Hollywood. The amount of cloying, manipulative horse shit this film manages to shovel is simply immeasurable. This isn't a film; it's a Hallmark card made by and for people with an incredibly naive and simple-minded worldview. I don't know, if you think a black man pouring scalding hot water for fun on a wealthy tetraplegic's legs while George Benson's "The Ghetto" blares on the soundtrack is the peak of hilarity, maybe you are that person.

  For me it was just plain offensive, and here's why: there was no reason at all for the main character to be black, and yet the…

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  Review by Jack ★★★★★

  I love sitting in a puddle of my own tears

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  Review by Zegan ★★★★½ 2

  How I felt when I was watching this movie:
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