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  Review by Tuomas ★★★★★ 148

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

  I kept waiting for something drastic. I thought the film was building towards something explosive. I thought the father might walk out and never come back. I thought he might die and that's why the need to recollect, the need to see in between the lines, to see what wasn't explicitly expressed. I thought we'd get an answer, but we don't. We know he's gone, but why or how is never explained. The two go back home from the vacation and there's a nice intercut shot of the daughter in the present pointing a camera at the film's camera and the father in the past doing the same until he puts his camera in a bag and walks out of…

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  Review by Owen ★★★★ 2

  made me want to kill myself, a high mark of any movie

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★★ 1

  The kind of movie that makes you sit for 30 minutes and rethink every interaction you've ever had with your parents afterward

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  Review by crimsen 泓 ★★★★½

  capturing the last dance of intimacy and memory in her little mind camera.

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  Review by Sydney🚀 ★★★★★ 44

  You never really shake that feeling of seeing darkness in your parents that you don’t understand yet. The sudden realization that holes are being poked in your perfect image of them, and you don’t know whether to resent them or pity them or all of the above. I don’t like to get very personal with reviews but it’s hard to separate my thoughts on Aftersun from my own experiences, and it’s worth mentioning that I’ve probably never felt so acutely understood and affected by a film in my life. I think this is being described as a complicated but somewhat universal relationship, and in many ways it is, but Charlotte Wells is also getting at something specifically dark and definitely…

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  Review by veronica ★★★★★ 19

  i’ll be thinking about that under pressure scene for a long long time, totally broke my heart

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  Review by claira curtis ★★★★★ 154

  “I’m still copying you though.” 
  “I know. Now copy this.” 

  I am standing in a room and I am looking at my dad.

  It is 1996 and he is 33 years old and he is journaling hour by hour the day that I am born. He is the first person to ever put my name to paper. It is 2008 and he is 45 years old and he is gripping my arms too tight and screaming at me, so close I can smell the beer on his breath. I am telling him I do not want to live with him anymore because it makes me too anxious to see the way he drinks. It is 2012 and he is 49 years…

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  Review by joereid ★★★★★ 5

  We as a culture MUST let Paul Mescal dance.

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★★

  might’ve shed a few tears but you didn’t hear that from me

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 32

  hit like an absolute BRICK the second the credits rolled

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  Review by Bowen Yang ★★★★½ 13

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

  motorcycle arcade games lead to lesbianism.

  really really really beautiful.

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  Review by alba ★★★★★ 5

  paul mescal playing depressed people will always hit extremely hard