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  Review by Jeff! ★★★★ 1

  eat your heart out christopher nolan because this is how you make a movie that fucks with time and reality

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  Review by Karsten Runquist ★★★★½

  just an absolutely heartbreaking film from beginning to end. belongs in a very small group of movies that i don’t think i could bring myself to watch again. i really don’t know what else there is to say? anthony hopkins deserves the world.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★½ 14

  You know when you see someone blow into a balloon when it's already pretty big, and you're like "whoa! that thing's gonna pop!" and then you stop paying attention for a bit and you come back and it's even bigger and you're like "jesus it's still going?" and then every time you come back to it you've stopped being impressed by how big it's able to go and your heart starts to beat real fast because you're afraid it's going to explode any second? That's how I feel about Anthony Hopkins aging.

  Great actor, great movie! Honestly one of the scariest films I have seen in a while. Plays from Hopkins's perspective like a slo-mo psychological thriller, which is the…

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★ 21

  Man, fuck Paul

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  Review by Jaxi ★★★★½ 5

  florian zeller really said i'm gonna cast the best actors and make them give their best performances until the viewers cry into their stupid little movie snacks

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  No really just put me out of my misery if this happens.

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  Review by Taylor Williams ★★★★ 12

  Had to do the biggest double take of my life when the film opened with a harpsichord score over Olivia Colman walking and the credit “edited by Yorgos Lamprinos” popped up

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  Review by Siegel™ ★★★★½ 29

  The unreliable narrator is fairly commonplace in film. Ranging from Memento to American Psycho to Fight Club, it is a storytelling ingenuity to convey the narrative in untrustworthy fashion in a way that elevates the psychological aspect and enhances the personality of the story. However, it has rarely, if ever, been used to as a purely dramatic tool and not a thrilling one. What The Father does that I've never seen before is it doesn't just tell a story - in fact it arguably doesn't tell a story at all, as everything that happens is as likely to be a manifestation of the illness as it is reality, and even that which is perhaps real is likely bent out of…

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  Review by hunter strawberry ★★★★ 11

  florian zeller: hey olivia pls come act in my new movie 
  olivia colman: no 
  florian zeller: glenn close might be winning her first oscar
  olivia colman: when do we start

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 4

  AFI 2020: film #11

  “what about me? who exactly am i?”

  feels like still alice infused with charlie kaufman, where time is skipped and looped and often a terrifyingly immersive look into the protagonist’s psyche. definitely more creative than the oscar bait i was expecting, but still performance driven and quite heartbreaking

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 5

  merely existing past the age of 50 is getting less and less appealing

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 2

  At once both an unsettlingly accurate simulation of what it’s like to love someone with dementia, and also a strikingly believable conception of what it’s like to live as someone with dementia, Florian Zeller’s “The Father” envisions senility as a house of mirrors in which everyone loses sight of themselves. Adapted from Zeller’s award-winning play of the same name, and directed with a firm hand by the playwright himself, this M.C. Escher drawing of a movie chips away at the austerity of the Euro-dramas that inform its style until every shot betrays the promise of its objectivity, and reality itself becomes destabilized.

  “The Father” is a slippery film in which even the most basic information can be vaporized in the…