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  Review by karsten ★★★★ 6

  I got a lot going on in my life right now, but at least I’m not this dude.

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  Review by FernandoFCroce ★ 52

  Fear Factor + One. Perfect. Shot. ≠ Tarkovsky

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  Review by Evan ★★★★★ 47

  If Leonard DiCaprio doesn't win The Oscar; I will be more done than a white girl that went to Starbuck just to find out that they were all out of triple espresso mochaccino lattes.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 37

  60/100

  The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a masterclass in portraying a sense of an untamed yet euphoric setting. Its grimy and increasingly mythical landscape contrast with serene Digital images, showcasing a vast environment with a conflicted aura of inhospitable wilderness and the tantalizing search for greed and power. With Emmanuel Lubezki at the helm as DP, and armed with the Arri Alexa 65, the result is a gigantic adventure with a scope as wide as its constant lens choice, but sadly miscalculated when it comes to core story components.

  Its ultimately disappointing to think, after all the horror stories involved in production, that something so misguided can result from such obvious turmoil, but most of the issues…

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  Review by andrea🌹 ★★★ 3

  I Lived, Bitch: The Movie

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  Review by Jordan Rowe ★★★★★ 8

  My brain is struggling to process complete sentences after this film, but I'll give it a try...

  I really don't wanna oversell this, but "The Revenant" is one of the most stunning, visceral moviegoing experiences I've ever had. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is working on another level as a storyteller, channeling his pure, auteur-driven vision onto the screen. It's visually astounding (Emmanuel Lubezki is a force of nature behind the camera), intense, and emotionally fulfilling. Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy also turn in some of the best work of their careers.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 16

  revenge is bad cuz God or sumthin' guys & trees don't give up so neither will leo cuz nature... is like... inherently violent but also not cuz it's so beautiful but ALSO UGLY ya idk here's some more trees lol. iñárritu, already well known for mistaking ruthlessly punishing his characters for meaning/depth & explaining very simple, college-level sentiments in the most obvious way imaginable all under the guise of ~Great Important Artistry~, doubles down & winds up channeling the broad, senseless misery porn of a writer like kurt sutter more than malick/tarkovsky. like a first year film student was handed $100 million, essentially. for a film being marketed as this brutal, messy "not-for-pussies" experience, this has got to be the cleanest anti-revenge revenge…

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★ 28

  Another look allowed me to focus more on the alternate reading that's suggested by the title. (Spoilers ahead.)

  You could make the case that Glass dies shortly after he lies down next to the body of his dead son. (There's a particularly potent cutaway shot to the sun piercing through the cloudy sky.) From that point on, Glass is a specter haunting this land and the people in it - he resists "letting go" and following his wife and son into the afterlife because he instead chooses revenge. And as long as he does so, as long as he ignores their calling to him in those visions, he's cursed to live in this in-between space (hence his ability to survive…

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★ 12

  Extremely bleak, exceedingly brutal & exceptionally cold-blooded, The Revenant is that savage beast that charges at you with relentless aggression, mauls you from head to toe without mercy, and leaves you utterly bruised, broken & helpless in the middle of a harsh surrounding. Absolutely uncompromising with its content, unflinchingly raw in its depiction, and pushing its cast & crew to their limit, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest is one of the most harrowing films ever made.

  Inspired by true events & based on the novel of the same name, the story of The Revenant takes place in the 1820s and follows Hugh Glass, a frontiersman who, during the expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, gets viciously attacked by a bear and is left for dead…

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★ 41

  I was going to just knock off a smart-ass little one liner … ‘Hiring Mr. Lubezki does not a Malick film make’ … but I’ve been writing too many of those lately, and Alejandro Iñárritu deserves more respect than that. Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel are all films I’ve seen, enjoyed, and respected. I was on the ‘loved’ side of the divisive Bird Man.

  I do believe in the nut of that quip I was going to post. I think Iñárritu began to change with Birdman, and the biggest evidence of that change was saying goodbye to long time cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and striking a new relationship with Chivo.

  Rodrigo Prieto is no slouch, but he’s a cinematographer that…

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★½ 20

  that mamma bear liked Leo,
  I'd hump him too if I were a bear.

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  Review by laird ★★★ 20

  (It's) HARD TO BE A GO(o)D (Movie)
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  Days of Heavin'

  Mostly entertaining spectacle, but good googly moogly could the movie draw any more attention to its own production? By the time Leo's breath fogs up the camera lens it was about time number 2073 that I noticed there was a camera. Seems at odds with the realism/naturalism for which the movie is going. It's also jarring every time there's a CGI animal on screen (the audience I saw it with laughed when the bear falls on Leo*). Lubezki's digital photography (though excellent) is so smooth, crisp, clean and sharp that it also seems at odds with the bloody, muddy, dirty, gritty raw aesthetic of the production. I kept waiting…