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  Review by maria ★★★★½ 47

  when the movie ended and martin scorsese's name appeared on the screen, a woman who was sitting next to me in the theatre stood up, clapped for a little while and then said WELL DONE, MARTY for everyone to hear and i can honestly say i have never been more represented by a person in my entire life

  well done, marty
  well done, robert
  well done, al
  well done, joe
  well done, harvey
  well done, y'all

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  Review by Roberto_ ★★★★★ 16

  jimmy hoffa's secrets to success:

  • never show up late
  • always wear a suit for a meeting
  • don't drink
  • eat a lot of ice cream
  • always charge a guy with a gun!
  ...(with a knife, you run away!!!)

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½ 26

  This won’t make a lot of sense but:
  I can’t honestly say every minute of this is necessary. But none of those minutes feel like a waste of time. This was everything I love about Marty and his films but polished. The most thoughtful, precise, and vulnerable film I’ve seen from him. Can’t wait to see it again!

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 52

  Working stiffs.

  Not sure I've ever mentioned this before but I have a very personal fear of not... feeling... correctly. Like enormously important things are happening around you in a matter-of-fact, dissociative way that you can understand the significance of but you can't shake this idea that you're experiencing them wrong—like they're a thing you've been vaguely told and taught about so you're performing it like work when really you're supposed to be doing more, feeling more, being more. Because that's the point, right? Otherwise, what are we doing here? Needless to say this was a horror movie to me.

  There's a stretch in this that genuinely shook me to my core, you'll know it when you watch it; it…

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 9

  Oh maybe I DON'T want to be a gangster after all. It looks bad and sad!

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 15

  (no real spoilers per se, but i'm talkin about the tone of the film so if you wanna go in completely blind on what to expect, go away!!! but also, the movie is 3.5 hours, there is a strong chance you will have forgotten all of this by the time the ending comes)

  About an hour into the film, the format starts to unravel in a way that makes you think "ah, this just might be another 'portrait of a criminal' Scorcese movie– but longer." And it isn't until the last hour that you can really feel what makes this movie different– there's absolutely no joy in Scorcese's portrayal of Frank's life. No fun times, no "this is the life…

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  Review by Sean Baker 42

  Brevity in my recent logs is only because of lack of time at the moment. Hopefully I can return to these pages in the future to add thoughts.

  Watched at Hillsborough Cinemas, Hillsborough N.J.

  Glad I saw it on the big screen but very disappointed at the venue. The projection was ludicrous. The screen was littered with dead blue pixels. It looked like blue tinsel surrounding the image. When I complained to the employees, I received an "ok boomer" nod in response. I hate to slam an independently owned multiplex chain but the lack of quality control in theaters is one of the reasons we are seeing audiences lose interest in the theatrical experience.

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★½ 10

  This is the saddest movie I've ever seen

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 33

  Third watch (first review). Some more stray notes:

  Love the structure so much. God Thelma. This easily could’ve been made with melodramatic suspense and anguish but she and Scorsese instead opt for this slow, matter-of-fact accumulation of detail that results in this heartbreaking rumination on the experience of time and decaying. There's nothing even exciting about the hits! They're shot with a sense of workmanship while Frank talks you through the mundane process of his decision-making.Tthey're empty and soulless and final. (Which alongside a certain cremation triggers Frank's obsession with "finality.") Watching someone we actually care about receive that silent, hollow meat grinder is the closest Scorsese has ever come to horror, and when you step back from the film…

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 25

  joe pesci says “lets go girls” and i couldnt stop thinking about shania twains i feel like a woman for the remaining 2 hours and 40 minutes

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  Review by iana ★★★★ 5

  this scorsese guy makes really good movies huh

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 4

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

  “I’m behind you, Jimmy. All the way.”

  And in the end, he was.