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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★★

  Women do indeed talk

  
  Highlight of the experience was the woman next to me waking up her husband with ‘women talking means men listening’

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★★★½ 36

  And I was listening!

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  Review by tyler ★★★★

  every man should be ben whishaw and if you're a man and you're not ben whishaw you should be asking yourself why am i not ben whishaw

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  Review by Zach Shevich ★★★★½ 9

  Twelve Angry Women

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★ 1

  Great movie but why is the color grading like that. Like I get what they're going for but you can make a movie look bleak without making it look like an antidepressants commercial

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 17

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

  decision to leave

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  Review by Olivia Craighead ★★★½ 27

  pretty funny that someone literally says “not all men”

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  Review by brat pacino ★★★★

  "I'm so sorry, Ona."
  "One day, I would like to hear those words from someone who should be saying them."

  a case study in universal empathy and righteous rage and fractured language and apologies that never come. director Sarah Polley is careful to refrain from depicting or reveling in any violence, opting to center the internal aftermath rather than the horrific inciting incident (which happened in 2009 to a Mennonite community in Bolivia).

  more thoughts about Women Talking (including the controversial color grading) in my interview with the film's stars Claire Foy, Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy for Letterboxd's Journal! ;)

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★★½ 5

  I love it when the whole cast gives amazing performances wow this should happen more often

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  Review by Emma 🔆 ★★★★½ 6

  Frances McDormand does more with 3 minutes of screen time and one stern look than most actors will do in their entire careers

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★

  For God knows how long, the women of an isolated religious community (Mennonite in everything but name) have been drugged with cow tranquilizer and raped on a regular basis during the night. The women had been told they were being violated by ghosts, demons, or even Satan himself — punishment for their own improprieties — and they believed that lie until two young girls saw one of the rapists as he scurried back to bed across the field one night. Some of the men were arrested, and the ones who weren’t have gone into the city to arrange for bail. The women of the colony, unsupervised for a short period of time, have roughly 48 hours to decide what their…

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★ 29

  Not a fun movie to dislike because there's obvious value in its emotional reckoning with patriarchal power and sexual abuse, and ideas about how to turn conversation (political, spiritual, moral) and planning into material results... But it utterly fails to dramatically convey or formally structure them, or simply turn them into much more than agreeable, one-note essay bullet points. Passionately performed ones at times maybe, just unfortunately in a way can't help but feel like it's been jerry-rigged backward from the nomination clips it didn't even end up getting. Makes for a strange viewing experience that doesn't leave you a whole lot to engage with other than the baffling Ben Wishaw sitting-his-ass-down-and-listening male ally role/performance and truly hideous shooting style/color grade that actually prompted me to look up the tech specs to see how it was even possible to achieve.