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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★ 5

  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 Evan ★★★★★ 54

  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 andrea🌹 ★★★ 4

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

  I Lived, Bitch: The Movie

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 34

  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 Josh Larsen ★★★★ 31

  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 Lucy ★★★ 3

  this whole movie needs to take a chill pill

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★ 25

  The pulpy, punchy 100-minute version of this is probably good but because Iñárritu (already well known for mistaking ruthlessly punishing his characters for meaning/depth & overexplaining very simple, college-level sentiments in the most obvious melodramatic way imaginable) thinks of himself as a Malick or Tarkovsky... He's above genre movie-making, he's an Artiste, and so he pads things out with an hour of revenge is bad cuz God or something & 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 are some more trees lol. Feels like a first-year film student was handed $100 million, essentially.

  And for a film being marketed as brutal and…

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★ 4

  I skipped every shot of just trees/sky and this movie was an hour long

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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 Melissa Tamminga ★★ 51

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

  Q. Why did the Native son need to die?
  A. Because the white man needs drama.

  Q. Why did the Native wife need to die?
  A. Because the white man needs drama. And an exotic dream guide.

  Q. Why did the cute Native who catches snowflakes on his tongue need to die?
  A. Because the bad guys need to be real bad and real racist because the sensitive white man needs drama.

  Q. Why did the Natives attack the injured, helpless, solitary white man even though they need information about a lost daughter he might (probably does) have?
  A. Because the white man needs drama.

  Q. Why did the Native daughter need to be raped?
  A. Because the white man…

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  Review by ab ★★ 19

  Hey I'm making a movie called The Revenant and it's really good because it's about like survival and man vs nature and stuff and it's going to have really good cinematography by that guy who did the dinosaur movie and it'll be artistic because I'll cut to shots of nature when there's intense stuff happening to show how epic nature is like omg and I'm going to shoot it in long takes because all the best directors do it and I'm one of those great directors like Tarkovsky because I'm going to have the mother levitating like in Mirror and it'll be really dreamlike and cool because the camera isn't on a tripod and it's like that guy who did…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½

  I'm probably not supposed to think this is as much fun as I do, but I find the combination of grisly violence, incredible and frequently comic portent, and for the most part oppressively immaculate technical craft wildly exciting even while I compute how needlessly it strains for seriousness. So yeah, I was the guy behind you in the theater who cackled every time an arrow suddenly popped through a dude's throat or any given living body was otherwise subjected to some absurd, visceral abuse. And I enjoyed (at least until its stupid final moments) that this doesn't really bother with useless handwringing over the morality of revenge. Strip a half-hour of cold people glaring and freezing out of this and you'd have a hell of an action movie.