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  Review by john ★★★★ 1

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

  bro, imagine raising a snitch

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★½ 3

  I’m starting to think Harvey Keitel wasn’t serious about wanting to learn to play the piano

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 28

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

  This film has the wrong ending. It was such a startlingly wrong ending that I looked it up to confirm--Campion herself has said she intended a different ending. While the film's wrong ending is fine, really, it seems tacked on. And while it conveys a certain sense of what the film is about, it muddles it slightly. What this film is about is a woman's passion, about her defining herself through something other than a man (namely, her piano), and about how being bound to a man--being controlled by one--diminishes her.

  If taken literally, well, that's a flawed tale, but she's more a metaphor for the representation of women. She's every silent female character who serves only to be a…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 2

  SHE JUST WANTED TO PLAY HER PIANO

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★½ 5

  Jane Campion is a master filmmaker and we know this because she made a film where Harvey Keitel is hotter than Sam Neill…

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  Review by Muriel ★★★★★

  the way anna paquin grew up to hate harvey keitel even more in the irishman... poetic cinema

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 2

  Some of the most beautiful music ever written for a film, and very rich, expressive images that say everything the lead character can't. "Like a mood that passes into you."

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  "I'm quite the town freak, which satisfies."

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★ 4

  55/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  Ada's wholehearted surrender to Baines still troubles me. Obviously the film is very much a woman's vision, and I'm not averse to potentially off-putting complexity in this realm, but Campion really does present Baines' sexual blackmail as a genuine expression of pure love, which comes perilously close to "I beat you because I care." And the film just doesn't complicate that enough for my taste. Otherwise impeccable, and holy moly Paquin is amazing.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 9

  a weird lullaby

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  Review by tova hirsch ★½

  why are heterosexuals like this

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 3

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

  going to pretend this ended the way jane campion actually intended and call this a masterpiece