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  Review by kársten ★★★½

  big exhale after this one

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  Review by tyler ★★★★

  brendan fraser we will get you that oscar

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★½ 35

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

  Did Dan the pizza guy represent God judging us? Sorry I don’t get movies unless every single metaphor is explained to me

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  Review by SilentDawn ½ 599

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  'Simple Jack' for Aronofsky heads, or maybe his Norbit. Darren's latest case in miserabilism is an a24-produced theatrical adaptation that functions as both a saccharine weepie for people who use the #brendanissance hashtag and those who wish that 'my 600 pound life' somehow had less artistic integrity. This is a classic example of a movie being so unbearably full of itself that it, intermittently, transforms into a pretty funny parody of the very film it's attempting to succeed as. If you're looking to wallow in dimly-lit images of fat-suit Brendan Fraser as the camera gawks at his eating habits (I especially liked his mix of pizza and grape jelly), or listen to Rob Simonsen's overbearing original score as our…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 81

  less concerned with the conversation around "fatphobia" (though certainly there is some tragic body horror gawking like cranking that ridiculous music over him eating that probably qualifies, idk, other people can have fun writing about that) than i am with how offensively artificial and allegorical this is. there are plenty of worthwhile melodramatic ideas here about our relationship to our body, sexuality, family, and religion wrapped up in feelings of shame/self-punishment, etc. but beyond surface manipulation, you don't really feel them. i can't personally speak to whether this was true of the material being adapted as well but the writerly, locked-in construction that organizes all these ideas is so ruthlessly underlined and suffocating and literal that by the time aronofsky…

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  Review by Logan Kenny ★ 94

  I met my late partner almost three years ago. she’s been dead for about two now. when we first started dating, one of the biggest conversations we had was about our respective eating disorders. I had struggled with not eating for significant periods of time. mixed with a lot of exercise, it meant that I lost a fair bit of weight and was extremely thin for a long time. she had struggled with bulimia in the past and it affected her badly, she had once been hospitalised because of it and some of the things that she described doing to her body then will remain private between the two of us forever. she made me feel better about talking about…

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  Review by freya. ★★★★ 8

  the collective sobs from the audience at the end of the screening.. felt like i was in that one scene from midsommar

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★ 9

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

  dan the pizza man i was rooting for you!!!!!!

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  Review by jarod ★★★ 30

  sadie sink... i'm sorry my dear but you are up for elimination

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  Review by ivy wolk 14

  it was good but when it ended the guy who took me said he didn’t wanna go out anymore

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  Review by The Oscar Expert ★★★★ 1

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

  I do think it’s a little messy thematically and some moments feel kinda silly. But the performances are phenom and I find these equally endearing and despicable characters highly watchable. I also like the visual approach a lot. The murky, dim interior that we’re confined to as our protagonist is also trapped in his own regret, grief, and failing. The pouring of light into the room at the end is a very powerful visual choice even if it’s kinda obvious.

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  Review by clementine ★★½ 5

  he was drinking diet pepsi he good