Diana Tuova Spotlight on Film Aug 9, 2024 5/5

It is a beautiful and daring French-language film about the enduring power of love that trespasses the boundaries of societal conventions.

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Diego Batlle Otroscines.com Jun 27, 2023 3/5

Dolan's films -- which have a touch of Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar-wai -- are always exaggerated, capricious, arbitrary, showy, but also, beautiful, intense, and unafraid of being ridiculed. [Full review in Spanish]

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 13, 2020 3.0/4.0

It's a film that asks difficult questions, tells a meaningful story, and adds Dolan's unique artistic sensibility.

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Joseph Walsh CineVue Aug 23, 2018 3/5

A beautiful gateau of a film.

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Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald Nov 29, 2017 B

Dolan's latest feature, the French language Laurence Anyways, proves this is a filmmaker able to breathe cinematic invention and beauty into every frame.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Feb 13, 2016 B-

A stylish and immodest transgender melodrama.

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Dan Jardine Cinemania Jul 16, 2014 74/100

Too much music. Too much colour. Too much movie. But a good movie.

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Richard Knight Windy City Times Jun 27, 2014

Suzanne Clement gives one of those legendary, no-holds-barred performances that announces the arrival of a sensational new screen presence.

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Landon Palmer Film School Rejects Jun 2, 2014 A-

...a symphony of sound and image, an epic account of a dynamic and complicated relationship, and one of the most powerful and affecting love stories I've seen on film in quite some time.

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Ray Pride Newcity Apr 7, 2014

Drenching melodrama, reckless, ravishing. Dolan's style, to some, may seem overheated, flamboyant, baroque, immature, indulgent, extravagant, but it is what it is and what it is, at his keenest moments, is fabulous.

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Richard Haridy Quickflix Nov 25, 2013 3.5/5

It's bold, brash, and frequently successful, but also repetitive and ultimately arduous. There simply isn't enough story here to justify the inflated running time and, for many, Laurence Anyways will wear out its welcome.

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Margot Harrison Seven Days (VT) Oct 30, 2013 8/10

It's far longer than it needs to be. But it's still an absorbing chronicle of a romance in which one partner happens to be transsexual.

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David Lewis San Francisco Chronicle Oct 10, 2013 2.5/4

"Laurence Anyways" is a formidable display of French Canadian director Xavier Dolan's prodigious talents, but also a case study of a young talent still finding his way to greatness.He'll get there one day, soon, but this film doesn't quite do it.

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Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Oct 3, 2013 C

For every sublime moment the movie has to offer, there's a cinematic dead zone of indulgence that wipes it away, generating a frustrating, occasionally intolerable sit.

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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader Sep 12, 2013

Lushly romantic and daringly original.

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Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue Jul 22, 2013

Rarely have such issues been explored on screen with such intimacy and complexity, even if some of the quirky details in Dolan's epic feels more unfocused than profound.

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Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic Jul 18, 2013 4/5

It's all too much, really, including its 21/2-hour-plus running time. But it's also engrossing, an ultimately tender story of a transsexual's transformation over 10 years and its effect on him and the people around him.

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Scott Tobias The Dissolve Jul 11, 2013 3/5

Laurence Anyways has the feel of a personal project that got away from Dolan, full of raw, rough-edged drama in desperate need of discipline and refinement.

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Fr. Chris Carpenter Movie Dearest Jul 6, 2013 B+

One can't help but feel that Dolan & Co. go into a bit too much detail re: the changes faced by Laurence...Nonetheless, there has not been as exhaustive (exhausting?) a look into the Trans(gender) experience before.

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Brent Simon Shockya.com Jul 4, 2013 C

It evidences a hoarder's bond to moments of extravagantly photographed feeling -- no matter that it's often the same feelings being communicated, over and over.

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