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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Aug 2018

Unfortunately, what should have naturalistic depth seems oddly superficial, and an attempt to dispose of traditional structure becomes episodic…

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By Ben Sachs (546) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 28 Aug 2018

Letting the audience determine the meaning of her aesthetic choices, Decker shows little interest in creating meaning herself…

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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 28 Aug 2018

Madeline's Madeline is simultaneously fun and offputting with its artsy sensibilities, but the one thing we can all agree on is big things…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 27 Aug 2018

A kaleidoscopic, bite-sized variation on the acreage of theater-company rehearsals in Rivette's Out 1...The hall of mirrors refracts; the world…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Solzy at the Movies (339) on 27 Aug 2018

With a standout performance from newcomer Helena Howard, Madeline's Madelinelives up to the very definition of art house cinema…

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By Kambole Campbell (73) for One Room With A View (90) on 24 Aug 2018

Madeline's Madeline is a fascinating, often astonishing experimental work that obliterates the traditional structure of coming-of-age movies,…

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By Johanna Schneller (84) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 23 Aug 2018

Decker evolved her project with her actors over five months, and it’s both pro and con that, boy howdy, it sure feels improvised…

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By Christopher Llewellyn Reed (298) for Film Festival Today (161) on 22 Aug 2018

I may not have enjoyed the central narrative ... but I found much of the periphery worthy of great cinema…

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By Sherilyn Connelly (422) for SF Weekly (560) on 22 Aug 2018

Madeline's Madeline flirts with entering the humanity-versus-bestiary debate…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 22 Aug 2018

Through her emotionally complex depiction of the Madeline-Evangeline dynamics, Decker makes her critical assessment of the collaborative process…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 22 Aug 2018

Even if it’s a film that will challenge any viewer, it benefits from a strong premise, a story line that more or less holds up, and three…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 21 Aug 2018

Despite the strong lead performance and these immersive aesthetics, Madeline remains frustratingly at a distance…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 21 Aug 2018

Indeed, what Decker does behind the camera is just as daring, and as artful, as what Howard does in front of it…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 21 Aug 2018

Beautifully acted and featuring a head-spinning variety of dream-like images…

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By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Aug 2018

If you enjoy the soft-grained, difficult, probing nature of Decker's film - and I did, for the most part - it pays off in quiet, almost peripheral…

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By Stuart Klawans (282) for The Nation (355) on 16 Aug 2018

A movie that respects the fluidity of a 16-year-old's sense of self by demanding to be a what the hell? experience…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Aug 2018

Madeline’s Madeline is the product of a lengthy, improvisation-heavy collaboration between Decker and her star, an astonishing teenage discovery…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 13 Aug 2018

Whether or not the film fully lands will come down to how much you’re willing to give yourself over to its theatrical world…

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By Nathanael Hood (305) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 12 Aug 2018

It's impossible to dismiss Madeline's Madeline completely. It's too bold, too brave, too defiantly itself to be written off as a complete misfire…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Aug 2018

Madeline’s Madeline mistakes intimacy for honesty, and it mis-assumes that audiences care nearly as much about the creative process as actors…

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