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  Review by girlbayot ★★★★★

   Dear baby.
  I hope someday, somebody
  wants to hold you
  for 20 minutes straight,
  and that's all they do.
  They don't pull away.
  They don't look at your face.
  They don't try to kiss you.
  All they do is wrap you up
  in their arms
  and hold on tight without

  an ounce of selfishness to it. 

  WHEN SHE TOLD HIM TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HER LIFE, POETIC CINEMA!

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 5

  cw: abuse

  "All my life, Baby, the only thing I wanna do is run away."

  Of the many lines in this movie to resonate with me to the point where I began to cry, this hit the hardest. I have written before about how growing up in a small, repressive town left me with no ambitions but to escape. Jenna's smalltown Southern life, trapped in an abusive marriage, shackled by economic hardship and an unwanted pregnancy, desperately fighting for a piece of understanding or freedom, it's not my life, but that line, that moment, that sentiment reached so much deeper:

  It's always been about our bodies.

  When Earl makes demands of Jenna, he demands her loyalty, her love, and most…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black ★★★★★ 3

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

  The fact that she liberates herself before she knows about the money is everything.

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  Review by 👽hayley👽 ★★★½ 1

  try find something more wholesome than female friendships ~you~ ~cant~ ~do~ ~it~

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  Review by taliasara ★★★★★

  How can we watch women written and portrayed with such love and humanity and then go back to you know... the other stuff

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  Review by Holly-Beth ★★★★½

  all the aesthetic of pushing daisies without the dead bodies!!!

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  Review by single white femalien ★★★★ 4

  this movie is so wonderful and sad and im just sadder thinking about adrienne shelly :(

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  Review by Jamie Woodham ★★★★★ 3

  Wow. Just... wow. I went into this film knowing nothing about it (despite being a huge fan of the musical adaptation) and I was completely blown away. This is the kind of indie movie that so many indie movies bend over backwards on themselves trying to be.

  The world, the characters, the stakes, the emotion — all jaw-droppingly well conceived and effortlessly realized.

  A sadness lingered over me the entire time I was watching it though, simultaneously enjoying this beautiful art while also knowing that the writer/director’s untimely death snuffed out the spirit who created it. It’s odd to miss someone you’ve never met (and hadn’t even heard of until recently), but this movie is just so full of life…

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  Review by Leighton Trent ★★★★ 8

  Women writing and directing stories almost exclusively about women that sympathize and empathize with the experiences of women. THERE ARE STILL NOT ENOUGH OF THESE.

  Adrienne Shelly, we were robbed of so many great things that were yet to come from you.

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  Review by sree ★★★★½ 2

  pie lady, listen to me

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  Review by sydney ★★★★

  a couple frustrations, but they're basically irrelevant...this is brilliant in the way it allows its protagonists to have feelings and make choices without shaming them. on paper it's a heavy story, which is part of why i avoided seeing it for so long, but i was really impressed with how smoothly this balances out serious themes with humor and positivity. visually, it's charming and whimsical without being obnoxious. it's happy without being corny. the best way to describe it is honest, i think - the characters seem like real people, if a little cartoonish, and the ease with which they interact make the ups and downs feel earned, not manipulative. it's the kind of movie to marvel at because you…

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  Review by Hannah ★★★★

  men stay trash!