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  Review by maria ★★★ 7

  the DCU (Depression Cinematic Universe) sure is excellent

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  Review by Karsten ★★ 24

  I wouldn’t say I hate this. But the more I try and defend it the more I realize this was such an ugly and rushed execution to what could have been something touching. Like what is the Kevin Macleod type score accomplishing? Who allowed those “documentary” scenes to go on for as long as they did? It’s different! It’s interesting! Kinda? But the HIDEOUS end credits sequence was really the final twist of the knife. That bottom centered “Directed by Richard Linklater” SCREAMED that even he wanted this movie to just wrap itself up. Is a shitty visual aesthetic enough to ruin a movie? Apparently!

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  Review by leanne 7

  Thought that was Anna wintour

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  Review by KYK ★★½

  i’m obsessed with the terribly photoshopped video essay about cate blanchett

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 8

  “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” makes perfect sense as a Richard Linklater movie. In fact, this half-baked and eccentric tale of a modern woman getting her groove back — adapted from Maria Semple’s decidedly uncinematic novel of the same name — might only make sense as a Richard Linklater movie.

  From the maverick likes of “Slacker” and “Boyhood” to the more studio-polished fare of “School of Rock” and “Me and Orson Welles,” Austin’s most inquisitive auteur has always been drawn to shaggy little stories about creative people trying to find their way through a world that doesn’t always spread itself out into a proper canvas. For a restless iconoclast like Linklater, there’s nothing more dangerous or exciting than an artist who…

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  Review by MJsays ★★★½

  Cate Blanchett with destructive social anxiety is my spirit animal.

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  Review by Muriel 2

  i too would leave my family for a trip to the antarctica with spencer from pretty little liars

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★½ 8

  "A little social anxiety never hurt anyone."

  Bernadette is a chance for people to bask in the majesty of Cate Blanchett. Her character, Bernadette Fox, expresses extreme anxiety. As a former architect, she becomes lost in the world: she wants nothing to do with the people who hate her nor the strangers who love her. Still, she has a base comprised of friends and family, and the driving force of the movie is her rediscovering her passion.

  Based on a best-selling novel, some things get squashed in the execution of the adaptation. However, for me, the heart is still there. The tragi-comedic moments where Bernadette is losing it is either the best thing or the worst thing. You decide. It's…

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  Review by tessa ★★ 8

  ugh finally a movie that correctly depicts what it’s like to have social anxiety. thank you ms. blanchett! *chefs kiss* 

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 1

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  Huh. Not exactly surprised by the reception of this one, although I found myself charmed by the end credits. Besides the supporting Linklater players, I couldn't quite find his footprint in this mostly anonymous studio weepie, but it's a quirky rich-people dramedy and it does an admirable job of playing the tone as gentle and bittersweet.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½ 2

  Not everything here works, the big intervention scene is flat and it risks knocks the film out of balance, it is too dependent in the precious daughter to explain itself sometimes and some of the non-Blanchett material fails to raise beyond functional, but this is near miraculous as far as contemporary studio film goes both very conventional and offbeat. So full of odd rhythms (as usual Adair editing is great, just the right transitions and cuts all the time) and taken by an unusual mix of absurd Hollywood feel good hokum and Linklater grounded eye for small human behavior (the back and forth between the two is half of the fun). It is a real weird film, an upbeat depression…

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  Review by wersku ★★½

  If you're lost, you can look and you will find me. Time after time.

  The curse of artistic identity and the love within a chaotic family dynamic. Much like the entire film, this is messy, chaotic, and doesn’t quite find its own identity. It fails to captivate me, even though it offers us a very interesting journey into the burden of genius.

  The anxiety deepens, my mind jumps through the comedic tragic drama of the film, where the character study allows Blanchett to show a portrayal of a suffering woman with multifaceted acting. She dives into her character's mental state and crafts a peculiar, melancholic, talkative, but also silent persona, full of poignant emotional control.

  There's something about the film…