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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 23 Nov 2016

New Englanders, with both the dialog and locations, will feel at home in this small town saga, captured skillfully by cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes…

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By Noah Gittell (113) for Washington City Paper (500) on 23 Nov 2016

Too often here you feel the fingers of the writer, typing the story into existence, crafting it to its desired ends…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 22 Nov 2016

At turns elegiac, absurdist, and gently satirical, Lonergan’s drama is a deeply affecting chamber piece that features an outstanding performance…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 22 Nov 2016

I've found it really hard to write about Manchester by the Sea, because it sunk into my bones so deeply it's hard to extract…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 22 Nov 2016

A movie this deep and emotionally resonant, a movie about grown-ups without any kind of sales pitch in mind, is a beautiful and rare thing…

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By Mara Reinstein (308) for Us Weekly (308) on 22 Nov 2016

It's a masterful, all-American tale that delves deep into the black hole of grief…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for America Magazine (69) on 22 Nov 2016

Manchester by the Sea is a film that knocks politely on the door of the mind, and the heart. The advice here is to let it in immediately…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 22 Nov 2016

Casey Affleck is both the soul and the anchor of the movie…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Nov 2016

Manchester by the Sea is a film of surpassing beauty and heart. Even at its most melancholy depths, it brims with candid, earnest, indefatigable life…

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By Jason Zingale (478) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 22 Nov 2016

Manchester by the Sea will almost certainly go down as the most devastating, heart-wrenching drama of 2016…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 21 Nov 2016

Even if you love the film, as I do, all the lurching, stop-and-go exchanges of these unquiet souls may leave you with a craving for “The…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 21 Nov 2016

Watching actor Casey Affleck, who looks like an eternally youthful choir boy, fight his inner demons is worth the price of admission alone…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 19 Nov 2016

Despite confusing flashbacks with no discernible transitions, the acting is good enough to offset watching Affleck be depressed for 237 minutes…

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By Violet Levoit (65) for AllMovie (142) on 18 Nov 2016

a rare melodrama set in the world of men…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for Associated Press (1,685) on 18 Nov 2016

It's hard to overstate the magnificence of Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea…

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By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 18 Nov 2016

With Manchester by the Sea, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan has delivered a quietly devastating sucker punch of a film about the persistence…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 18 Nov 2016

Searing, insightful drama has intense themes, swearing…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 18 Nov 2016

It's a magisterial achievement, a piece that captures the deepest recesses of the soul as they're found within the sort of ordinary man that's…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2016

A movie about unremitting grief and yet it has a boisterousness, a comic twirl, that makes it much truer to the zigzags of life than most similarly…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 18 Nov 2016

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the…

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