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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★½ 9

  I can't believe Lynch made a film that actually filled my heart with love and comfort instead of dread and confusion.

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 7

  SIG: What do you need that grabber for, Alvin?

  ALVIN: Grabbin'.

  (a perfect movie)

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  Review by Karst ★★★★½

  a david lynch movie about an old guy who grew up on a farm in minnesota? are you kidding me? obviously, ofcourse, definitely. disney world should make a ride based off this.

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★ 11

  I love how Lynch teases us with the possibility that this could go full Blue Velvet at any moment.

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  Review by tyler ★★★★ 4

  walt disney pictures presents a film by david lynch is by far the best opening credit of all time

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ 2

  people who don't think this is lynchian through and through are simply wrong honestly, it taps into the core themes of his work, the love and empathy that human beings can share with each other in spite of or because of trauma and pain, and that there is beauty all around us, even if it takes a 300 mile lawnmower ride to fully witness this. cried about 50 times, but one of those movies that makes your soul heal, that gives you the elixir to your suffering, a film that only david lynch could have made and legitimately one of the most moving cinematic or just artistic experiences i've been fortunate enough to experience. also a few other things, the handling…

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  Review by Ciara ★★★★★ 26

  Angelo Badalamenti's score swells with pure emotion. Similar to another brilliant and beautiful story, Paris, Texas, (there's way too many commas there) this is about a man on the path to redemption. Similar to that movie, this is a pure mannered, unmelodramatic weeper.

  Little by little, this curious man is unpacked like a Russian doll. Across Iowa to Wisconsin, cornfields galore on his small lawn mower, we're truly in the midwest. And as the film unfolds, we're confronted with a man whose crippled old frame belies his brutal past: a past of war and alcoholism and brotherly love and loss and children reared amidst violence and tempers. It's almost unbearably close to home.

  I think Forrest's stellar review sums it…

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  Review by Sean Fennessey ★★★★½ 6

  Still so pure. I love you David Lynch.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 10

  It is sometimes easy to forget what a versatile director Lynch really is as he lately only deals in vagueness and weirdness. The Straight Story is a gentle reminder of what Lynch is also capable of. Delving into a character and placing him into the real world through us, his viewers.

  The title is far from a clever play on words but its ambiguity serves the film really well as this really is a simple story told in the straightest way imaginable by a director who can find the realness in a performance and a character, be they big or small. Just look at the faces of the people our hero encounters, they are real people, heck, look at our…

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  Review by russman ★★★½

  My new favorite Olsen Twins movie

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 13

  "The worst part of being old is remembering when you was young."

  Alvin Straight goes to the doctor, and the doc doesn't say he's going to die, at least not in so many words, but he says there will be consequences if he doesn't change his lifestyle. Pretty sure the changes he had in mind didn't include driving a lawn mower a hundred miles from Iowa to Wisconsin to see his ailing estranged brother, but you know, sometimes you say one thing and people hear another.

  And listen, I'm 31 years old, I'm not gonna pretend to be able to talk to y'all about aging, but if I heard that my sister had a stroke and all I had was…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 6

  never expected a david lynch film to warm my heart and make me cry but here we are