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Oct 04, 2023Emiy06 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An elegiac, deeply moving film about broken people. Excellent story and performances.
Sep 11, 2023TubinLouie rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good acting, depressing real-life story line.
Mar 16, 2023SF_READER rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
89th Academy Awards (2017) Winner: Best Actor: Casey Affleck Best Original Screenplay Nominee: Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor: Lucas Hedges Best Supporting Actress; Michelle Williams
Jan 27, 2023manoletters rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
The idea of a story is that something happens. Although it may seem like something does in this film, nothing really does happen. Long and boring.
Jan 09, 2023LPL_TriciaK rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Beautiful film directed by Kenneth Lonergan, whose repertoire includes the similarly affecting movie, You can count on me. Ben Affleck's performance of the deeply damaged, emotionally unavailable uncle won an academy award; I also loved…
Aug 14, 2022richardcsater rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Loser makes bad choices and lives with the consequences. This claptrap won Academy Awards??
Mar 03, 2022abelinsa rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Should have read SAPL reviews first. One of the WORST films I've ever seen. Clocking in at over 2 hrs 15 mins, the film doesn't get to the point until about a third of the way in. And the addition of 'flashbacks' makes that first 45…
Feb 25, 2022VonHafenstaaad rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A rich and powerful masterpiece starring Academy Award winner Casey Affleck as a working-class man overpowered by love and loss. Skip this movie if you have the attention span of a gnat.
Dec 17, 2020frosty2 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Casey Affleck is a poor actor. Lucas Hedges performance was uneven.... vacillating between very believable versus high school drama club-ish. The story is a good one, but the lackluster performance and ending made it less than the…
Nov 04, 2020BBQ_Chick rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The beautiful scenic shots are a stark contrast to the moodiness of the story which I thought was a different tack for a director to take. Typically they match. I must have dozed off at a key point because I couldn't figure out what this…
Mar 08, 2020stevania_k rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I watched it on Kanopy. The plot is flat. The acting is flat. Cinematography isn’t bad, it shows the beautiful side of Manchester. Overall it’s boring.
Jul 31, 2019eabramlett rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I was expecting a really good film because of all the awards and nominations. This is a long, boring, and unimaginative story about a regular guy who experiences a horrific tragedy, blames himself, loses everything, and becomes chronically…
Jun 08, 2019ScorchingSun rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A taciturn man stewing in psychic hell due to an inescapable past tragedy. A mild, melancholy film with moments of painfully emotional and sometimes comic outbursts. Perhaps overlong but well-edited pace.
May 10, 2019neyoscribbles rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A profoundly moving film. The emotions were so raw, I felt like I was there experiencing the tragedies alongside the characters. It is so heartbreaking to think and see that so many people walk around with such deep wells of grief that…
Mar 22, 2019Valancy1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I usually watch all Academy Award nominated films, but I had avoided this one for a while because I knew the subject matter would make it not a very fun film. I'm very glad I finally watched it. It was definitely not a fun film, but it…
Feb 26, 2019catherinejoy rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Long, slow, boring movie. Depressing. Characters using F*#k every second sentence. Forced myself to watch an hour then couldn’t stand any more and turned it off.
Feb 04, 2019gold55 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An excellent movie: poignant and impacting. The theme of how hard it is to forgive onself after causing devestating tragedy and loss (yet the need to do it) comes out loud and clear. The acting is superb. Although profoundly sad, it is not…
Jan 07, 2019uzebdrumz rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I have very little sympathy or empathy for a character that displays extremely poor life choices. There need to be a variety of good reasons to watch a film & this film offers very little justification for it's 135 minutes considering all…
Dec 14, 2018bjohns rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
After hearing my friends dis this movie as being too slow, having too much bad language, and having no conclusive ending, I put off watching this movie. But having an afternoon to waste, I put it in the DVD player and was mesmerized for 2…
Nov 10, 2018oldwestfan rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A powerful and profoundly moving psychological masterwork. A father's incautious behavior results in a devastating tragedy, after which his personality radically changes into such depressive behaviors as social isolation, deadened…
Nov 09, 2018benz_byron rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Typical pointless US movie.
Sep 20, 2018
This dramatic movie tells the story of a man named Lee Chandler, who is shocked to discover that his late brother made him the guardian of his teenage son. Taking a brief break away from his janitor job, he returns to the hometown of where…
Aug 19, 2018shokolit rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A very well made, worth watching film. I find most of the movies in the last few years to be either mostly superficial, overly dramatic, or just made in poor taste. The comedies are, well, just bad. So when I stumble upon a movie that is…
Aug 01, 2018Maoisdead rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I have to say I'm quite astonished by the vitriol that this film is receiving in some of these comments. Is it because the film deals in a heavy emotional dilemma that has no easy fixes or answers- and that it does it in a way that is…
Jul 18, 2018SunnySanMateo rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Slow moving, working class families, dark, depressing, relevate, someone filled with quilt, dysfunction, hits home for some - good acting..........