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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 22 Nov 2021

Take three hours out of your life, and enjoy one of the most fulfilling cinematic rides of the year…

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By Phil De Semlyen (265) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Nov 2021

What a clever, haunting way to show art’s power to articulate the hurt we find hard to express…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 22 Nov 2021

With its eddying, fluid score and judicious use of silence, its satisfying layers of storytelling, this is a supremely confident piece of film-making…

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By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 22 Nov 2021

The entire ensemble is remarkable. The drama is so engrossing, it knocks the jaunty Beatles song right out of the viewer’s head…

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By Vikram Murthi (112) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 22 Nov 2021

Drive My Car effectively captures the double-edged nature of storytelling as a means of both processing and deflecting emotions; Uncle Vanya…

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By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 19 Nov 2021

Drive My Car is not most films, its story told in minute, passing details that cannot help but grip the attention to the point that the emotional…

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By Ian Freer (515) for Empire (3,446) on 19 Nov 2021

The bizarre intersection between Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami and Anton Chekhov makes for a thematically fat, ambiguous, absorbing psycho-sexual…

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By Ray Lobo (13) for Film Threat (5,156) on 13 Nov 2021

The layering of multiple narratives on top of each other invites the viewer to reflect upon the numerous themes at play…

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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 27 Sep 2021

Though Drive My Car reaches a significantly less smoldering conclusion than Burning, it channels a similar feeling of catharsis…

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By Aparita Bhandari (53) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 13 Sep 2021

Drive My Car is a beautiful and mellow ride, although you’ll need to stretch your legs after it ends…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 23 Jul 2021

Hamaguchi has made a profoundly beautiful film about making peace with the role in front of you, and playing it with all your might…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Slashfilm (971) on 20 Jul 2021

Ambitious and yet quietly confident, Hamaguchi’s film feels an absolute treat…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Jul 2021

Nearly every scene of this richly novelistic movie — which won the festival’s screenplay prize — teems with ideas about grief and betrayal,…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 14 Jul 2021

Where once Hamaguchi’s film-making language had seemed to me at the level of jeu d’esprit, now it ascends to something with passion and…

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By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 Jul 2021

It’s a graceful, aching film that sculpts and stretches Murakami’s story into an enchanting three-hour epic (my, do the minutes fly by)…

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By Ben Croll (93) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

You get the sense that Hamaguchi is playing with the idea of prologues, of elements that sit just beyond a narrative arc that shades everything…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Jul 2021

Despite what may initially seem to be a somewhat straightforward contemporary drama, Hamaguchi has crafted a rich, skilfully layered masterwork…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jul 2021

Hamaguchi’s filmmaking, always accomplished, reaches new heights of refinement and sensory richness here, principally via Shinomiya’s immaculate,…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 Jul 2021

The result is a low-key but lingeringly resonant tale about a strange chapter in the life of a grieving theater director — an intimate stage…

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By Lisa Nesselson (145) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 11 Jul 2021

Hamaguchi has taken Murakami’s original story as a springboard rather than a strict template, changing and adding locations, inventing additional…

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