Reviews

• 

  ★★★½ review by davidehrlich on Letterboxd

  a 30-year-old writer named David goes home to care for a parent who's dying of cancer before Christmas. I couldn't relate.

  not necessarily a great movie (it's a bit sketchy in key places, and Bradley Whitford has a doozy of a line about "debating" his son's sexuality), but trust me when i say that it captures its subject with rare accuracy and nuance. eerie how the process is so indivisibly personal, and yet threaded with so many commonalities. uncanny, really. and while i didn't think the performances were necessarily anything special... other then how Jesse Plemons nails how it feels to say "it's fine. i mean, it's not fine. but it's fine" for 9 months... i don't know what to say to anyone who thinks they were overblown.

• 

  ★★★½ review by jose on Letterboxd

  “so a lady bird cinematic universe then?”

• 

  ★★★★★ review by William Lorenz on Letterboxd

  Dear mom,

  Thanks. For everything. For allowing me to be who I am. For helping me find who I am. I know it's hard for you, my being this far away from home, but you're endless encouragement has been the best gift I could ever ask for.

  You know me better than anybody else. You know when I'm sad, when I'm happy, when I'm upset; you're there for me when I need you and you're respectful when I need space. Recently I went through a struggle in a relationship that I was in. I told everybody, friends, family, that everything was okay. The only person that was able to pick up on my sadness through the facade was my mother. She somehow, without any communication, knew almost exactly what was bothering me.

  I cried with her on a daily basis in the weeks leading up to college. I cried about the inevitable demise of my relationship, but also about the fact that I would be living somewhere without my mother for the first time in my life. This sentiment hadn't hit me until that moment. When it did, I finally realized just how much I'd be leaving behind.

  Mom, you're the best of humanity. You're the only person who fully understands me emotionally. I love you so much. I can't even comprehend how much you love me. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you've ever done for me. I can't imagine a world without you in it. It would be much less bright.

  Love,
  
  William

• 

  ★★★★★ review by ahmedabdelsalem on Letterboxd

  This was very hard to watch as the whole experience felt so deep and real. Molly shannon delivered such a powerful performance. I really loved this movie.

• 

  ★★★★★ review by Hannah on Letterboxd

  i love this film. it's so raw and real and emotional and even though it's only my second time watching it, i fell in love with it. i love everything about it, especially the cinematography, which isn't anything crazy, but it's just so beautiful and like everything else in the movie, it's so real. other people makes me want to create and write, and also tell my mom i love her.

• See all reviews