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  Review by Lucy ★★★ 1

  judy garland herself said “make the yuletide gay” so we have no choice but to do just that

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  Review by Michael Strenski ★★★★ 7

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

  Certainly the only story whose happy ending is predicated on staying in Missouri.

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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus] ★★★★★ 15

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

  Any movie which celebrates major holidays by a climactic act of cathartic violence, like being bit by Judy Garland or the mass decapitation of a snow family is a movie I can get down with. Speaking of Judy, she wore many lovely outfits but none I wanted to wear myself more than the lace-collared black top // blue/green/pink pleated skirt w/ powder-blue? gloves ensemble! I too could picture myself serenading a whole trolley car about my crush in that get-up!

  PS - I also found her performance of 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' quite affecting.

  PPS - I had no idea that at the turn of the XXth Century in St. Louis, Halloween was celebrated by children in disguise who make bonfires of smashed furniture and attack their neighbors with flour before retiring to cake and ice-cream!

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 1

  that welsh rarebit was ginger peachy

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  Review by siobhan ★★★½

  alexa, play the trolley song

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  Review by Sam Van Hallgren ★★★★★ 1

  Best movie ever whose first scene is all about making ketchup.

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  Review by tara (that cunt) ★★★★½ 12

  DO 👏 THEY 👏 EAT 👏 THE 👏 KETCHUP 👏 THAT 👏 KATIE 👏 MADE 👏 AS 👏 SOUP 👏 AT 👏 DINNER? 👏 I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE 4 TIMES AND I STILL CAN NOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE IT OUT

  
  part of my february watchlist: favorites

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  Review by Gabriel Gundacker 1

  When the Father’s singing voice convinces the girls to eat their Halloween cake - wow! 

  This movie is awesome 👏

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★½

  john truett 🤝 me

  wanting judy garland to beat us up

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★ 6

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

  92/100

  A bit swamped with work and errands in the days before I leave for Cannes, so let me direct you to my friend Theo's capsule review, with which I concur 100% apart from the hilariously measured phrase "pretty wonderful" (as allotted to a film he rates higher than 99.9% of everything else he's ever seen). It is in fact intensely wonderful, pure delight from beginning to end; people think of it primarily as a Judy Garland vehicle (and she's magnificent) but it's really one of Hollywood's greatest ensemble pieces, so enraptured with everybody onscreen that its essential plotlessness barely registers. The only bum note, as Theo observes, is Dad's climactic decision to remain in St. Louis, which is cheaply…

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  Review by Carlos Valladares ★★★★★ 3

  Really one of the saddest films you can think of. Minnelli's colors, his trinket-ization of bourgeois interiors, and Judy Garland's Cake Walk dances are manic attempts by the Smith family to keep their depression at bay, to delay the growing up of the Smith sisters. As soon as the fun parts of the day end (John Truitt turning off his warm winter orange lights after asking Esther to marry him), darkness creeps in (Esther and Tootie cloaked in deep-dark blues — the shade of sorrow — they will be moving to a foreign place where they know nobody and won't be able to talk with anybody "like we do in St. Louis"). Judy Garland only infrequently smiles; in the ostensibly…

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 2

  "next year all our troubles will be miles away."
  "until then we'll have to muddle through somehow."