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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 24

  a long time ago i wrote a joke about pitching a new program to disneyland– the conceit being that you could subsidize an underprivileged child’s discounted admission to disneyland and spend the day with them, experiencing the joy of the park through their open, unjaded eyes (the punchline being that said program is one of many good ideas ruined by me continually forgetting that pedophiles exist.) the idea came back to me through this movie as soon as i realized that the openness and curiosity that most children hold allowed jesse to bypass the invisible customs of courtesy that we learn as adults and just… ask why things are a certain way. and when you care enough to treat those…

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  Review by kársten ★★★★

  i wish you could get tattoos of movies

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  Review by dylan gelula ★★★★★ 27

  Not trying to spark debate but I think Joaquin Phoenix is a good actor

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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 10

  mike mills’ films are so compassionate and this is the peak of that. it has so much love for people and mothers and parenthood. and it takes children so seriously. how complex they are, how they’re still figuring out who they are, how curious they are about the world, how they don’t understand quite yet what they’re feeling, how they’re in need of a hand to hold. i’m just so alfkskfksjfjsjd

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★ 11

  Still don't want kids but man do I want to be an uncle now

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 5

  one day I’ll see him again. I’ll hold his tiny, stupid, cute little face. I don’t know if he’ll remember me, if he’ll be little anymore, if he’ll be disappointed in the things I’ve done or even call me his sister.

  all I know is that I’ll hold him and remind him of everything. 

  thank you as always, mike mills. you beautiful bastard.

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  Review by kj ★★★★★ 3

  the film equivalent of a weighted blanket

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★★

  Been trying and trying but I can’t find the words for how this made me feel. A wonder.

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  Review by Ethan Ethan ★★★★½ 2

  I went from "this is why I don't want children" to "I'm gonna be such a good parent" in a span of a hundred minutes

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  Review by 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗪 ℝ𝔼𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎 ★★★★ 2

  A film about nothing except everything that happens in between.

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  Review by kevintporter ★★★★★ 7

  Oh man, relentlessly tender! Belongs to one of my favorite drama sub-genres of nice people trying to be nice to each other and not being very good at it all the time but really trying! There’s a lot of dignity granted to the inner lives of these little short kings running amongst us. What Mills does with the radio interviews and books strikes me as refreshingly ego-less, ceding the idea that anything he could write would be more interesting. It was really overwhelming to me, the sensation of a friend you trust who can’t stop telling you about the things they love.

  Very jarring to see Prince of Nastiness Joaquin Phoenix be warm in a way he hasn’t approached since…

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  Review by clementine ★★★★½ 1

  the way jaboukie was just there