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  Review by DANI ★★★½

  ‘thank you for being born’ is the new way of saying i love you and no i dont make the rules

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  Review by maurielle a 5

  sometimes a family is two men, one woman, a baby, the kid that hopped in their car, and the the investigators trying to arrest them for human trafficking

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½

  kore-eda is gonna keep making this movie and i’m gonna eat it up every time

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  Review by iana ★★★★½

  my pick for the palme. an empathetic road trip odyssey reflecting on the family we choose and the family we tearfully let go of. i might be biased but i thought lee ji-eun was particularly outstanding (in a film with song kang-ho!)

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 5

  kore-eda might be one of the only masters of genuine empathy and pure sentiment

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Typically bittersweet from Kore-eda will another strange, tender family - but I found it much more complex here with questions of forgiveness and responsibility and choice, crucially the wrestle with a woman’s choice that never feels right, whatever you do. It takes a master to get that conflict right

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  Review by Gabriele Niola ★★★★½

  Kore-eda still raising the bar of crimes that can be committed with an open heart

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  Review by nerosz 1

  koreeda, song kang ho, bae doona and IU working on the same film!!?! guess i finally found a motivation to stay alive

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  Review by BOO!zen ★★★★ 6

  no, hirokazu koreeda - thank YOU for being born!

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★★½ 4

  The cyclical nature of broken systems and the broken people within them, but the ultimate reminder that our kin isn’t always determined by blood. Poignant and tender, exactly what you expect from Kore-eda.

  I cried and then I cried some more.

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  Review by Jason Huang (黃擎元) ★★★★★ 12

  I'll probably see a lot of great movies for the next few days, but I highly doubt anything will be as good as Broker. Twenty minutes into the movie and I already knew this was going to be a masterpiece. It's probably Kore-eda's most plot-driven film, but it still *feels* like classic Kore-eda. Brilliant screenplay and such an emotional plot. It's just right up my alley.

  There is a sequence that takes place in a Ferris wheel partway through the film and I guarantee that scene is going to make entire theaters cry when it comes out. I was shedding tears in that scene and I swear half the theater was as well. IU steals the show. I haven't seen…

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  Review by Janica ★★★

  Watching Kore-eda’s films has never been as simple as the scenes or images he captures on film. The magic of his work lies in how it always manages to make me stop judging the characters and events unfolding on screen. He has this innate ability of balancing melodrama with true-to-life reality, and his unabashedly heartfelt approach shines through here. While some scenes are overtly manipulative, they do not outweigh the moments of genuine inspiration and spontaneity; like trips to theme parks and car washes that show how relationships are formed through shared experiences and openness with oneself.

  Broker isn’t about what one thinks it would entail— it centres around a mother and how she feels towards her baby (which she…