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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 10 Jul 2019

With impeccable craft, Wang has created a funny, heartfelt and bittersweet film that will ring riotously true for anyone who knows the joys…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 10 Jul 2019

Grief and love coexist in The Farewell, as do truth and fiction, past and present, sorrow and joy…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 09 Jul 2019

It’s one of the year’s sweetest films…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 09 Jul 2019

Awkwafina’s true skill as a remarkably sensitive collaborator has only recently been revealed—last year doing broad comedy in Crazy Rich…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Jul 2019

While writer/director Lulu Wang’s film is obviously personal and culturally specific, it achieves a universality and a resonance through…

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By Beatrice Loayza (94) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 08 Jul 2019

From a distance, The Farewell can look scattered, a series of ambling vignettes on the tradition-rooted quirks of modern China and the nature…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Time Out (7,510) on 03 Feb 2019

Delightfully embracing the specificity of Eastern culture, The Farewell reflects on collective considerations versus individualism, not unlike…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 01 Feb 2019

The little dramas and themes that emerge during the reunion of the film’s far-flung brood become, like a family, more than the sum of its…

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By Jordan Ruimy (242) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s Wang’s singular gift for life’s simplest moments which makes The Farewell ring so truthfully bare, funny and emotional…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Feb 2019

Bittersweet, touching and always funny, The Farewell is lived-in from top to toe…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2019

Building to the potential of a confrontation with the wedding climax, The Farewell threatens to melt into sentimentalism, but Wang dodges the…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

Wang shows an assured grasp of tone, a pleasing eye for unforced composition and a persuasive understanding of the immigrant cultural experience,…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Feb 2019

With exquisite poise, wry humor and delicate swells of feeling, The Farewell addresses and gently critiques the stoicism that Asians and Asian…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Feb 2019

What makes The Farewell so effective is that in delving into such a specific case, the film invites audiences to reflect on the passing of…

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By Matthew Passantino (89) for Film Threat (5,156) on 01 Feb 2019

The Farewell is wonderfully specific towards the culture depicted, but there’s a universality to its issues regarding family…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Feb 2019

It’s a slight film at times but one that builds to a crescendo of emotion…

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By Anthony Kaufman (83) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Feb 2019

The Farewell is so fixated on its principle problem that it doesn’t allow its story or its characters to veer from it, or find further complexities…

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