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By Jim Slotek (879) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 01 Dec 2020

Intriguingly weird, and only loosely tethered to its own reality, Lawrence Michael Levine’s Black Bear is two movies in one - both on the…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Dec 2020

Lawrence Michael Levine’s film, though, is only sporadically clever enough to pull off its central trick…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 Nov 2020

It’s not the neatest film-dissecting-filmmakers story, with rough edges, lurches in tone and trite tropes and dialogue…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 29 Nov 2020

Shot through with darkly existentialist humor, the film finds Aubrey Plaza throwing a gauntlet to filmmakers who have typecast her in the past…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Oct 2020

We read into what’s been provided in ways that resonate with us personally whether or not the resulting thoughts were consciously presented…

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By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 03 Feb 2020

More than a metatextual look at the struggles of indie filmmakers to gnaw at their own emotional wounds, Black Bear is an astounding showcase…

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By Sabina Dana Plasse (36) for Film Threat (5,156) on 30 Jan 2020

Throughout clever turns and twists of the plot, Levine presents a meditation and deconstruction on life imitating art and vice versa with a…

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By David Canfield (6) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Jan 2020

It’s brainy, sure, but the emotional experience is what’s most vivid…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 28 Jan 2020

As Levine unravels clever jabs and jibes at current culture — few recent features have so smartly picked apart both feminism and caveman…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Jan 2020

Unique and unfazed, hilarious yet philosophical, Black Bear is the comedic form reinvented and re-conformed to mad and intoxicating ends…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 28 Jan 2020

Black Bear is the movie that proves, beyond any lingering doubt, that Aubrey Plaza has much more to offer than the best eye-roll in the business…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2020

A slippery psychological drama that starts out talky and perhaps intentionally distancing but becomes retroactively gripping once its big switch…

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By Dennis Harvey (1,137) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2020

This adventurous seriocomedy has enough surprising elements and off-kilter humor to keep one intrigued, even if the payoff is debatable…

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