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  Review by Craig J. Clark 7

  What's that? You say there's a movie called Gaslight? Sorry, dear. Never heard of it. You must have imagined the whole thing.

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  Review by eely ★★★½ 2

  the most unrealistic part of every ingrid bergman movie is that all these men don’t just immediately fall down dead at the mere sight of her

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 8

  Gaslighting is specifically the manipulation of a person so that they begin to doubt their own mental health. While some gaslight another person intentionally to traumatize them, others do it as a means of protecting themselves from the consequences of their abusive actions. That is to say, gaslighting is a tactic of abusers to make a victim doubt their understanding of the abuse they are experiencing. It comes in many forms.

  That this film became synonymous with kind of abuse is a commentary on Ingrid Bergman's performance. She makes you feel her trauma as she struggles with her depression and confusion; she makes you feel not sorry for her but terrified for her. Her abuser is shown to be driven…

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  Review by tara (that cunt) ★★★★★ 4

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

  only flaw: she should have killed him

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  Review by Katrina ★★★★

  I’m the nosy neighbor who loves murder mysteries, digestive biscuits, and feeding the pigeons.

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  Review by Taylor Williams ★★★★

  They just don’t make abusers like they used to. Where’s the grandeur? The ambition? Not enough family jewels these days, and too many electric candles.

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  Review by Scott Tobias ★★★★½ 2

  Believe women!

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★ 2

  One of the most effective psychological thrillers I've ever seen. Beautifully shot and paced so meekly compared to modern head-trips that it's so much easier to fall into the movie's rhythm, and to get sucked along with its deceit. Charles Boyer is an all-time villain here.

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★ 2

  Audience going absolutely apeshit whenever the gaslighting happens

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★★½ 45

  For every femme fatale who suffered a slap as noir ran its course as a genre, it must be remembered that one of the genre’s most foundational entries turned on the villainy of masculine inadequacy. 

  That would be George Cukor’s “Gaslight,” a melodrama that precedes the larger noir movement in tone as much as it does in theme. 
  Although, you’d be forgiven for being misled by the dominant narrative that noir sprung solely from the hard-boiled hats of detectives and retired soldiers. Cukor’s work is, after all, the cinematic origin for the now ubiquitous term ‘gaslighting.’

  While “Citizen Kane” has ardent supporters claiming it was the ‘first noir,’ as does “Stranger on the Third Floor,” there are few who come…

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★★ 6

  Absolutely blew my mind.

  Literally the origin of the term "gaslighting" this movie dives into an emotionally abusive and manipulative relationship, from the victim's perspective.

  George Cukor has a way of directing female characters without overtly sexualizing or undermining their motives, which feels so fresh when returning to Hollywood classics. Of the white men directing and writing in old Hollywood, he tended to allow his female characters more autonomy, and the ability to not be defined by the men around them.

  Ingrid Bergman elevates what could have been a hokey concept to new heights by highlighting the character's emotional burden, grappling with the love and fear she has for her husband. Charles Boyer plays opposite her as firm but vacant…

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  Review by nigel ★★★★ 3

  *adds Gaslight to my list of reasons why to never trust men as example #367*