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By Mattbrady99 (654) on 28 Feb 2021

Why do you keep looking as if there's something wrong? Everything's fine…

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By Tropicaces (322) on 27 Feb 2021

Blown away. Truly. Hopkins gives one of the best performances I have ever seen. The depiction of memory loss is terrifying but brilliant…

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By Camwhit0196 (9) on 27 Feb 2021

Anthony Hopkins gives one of the greatest screen performances of all time…

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By Filmol (4) on 27 Feb 2021

I’m simultaneously in awe and devastated by this film. I was fortunate to see this twice and it was even better on the 2nd viewing…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Feb 2021

Masterful and agonizing, The Father is a gorgeously crafted film about a doomed arrangement entered into with love, even though it can only…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC (67) on 26 Feb 2021

Anthony Hopkins delivers a master class in acting as a once-brilliant man losing his mental faculties to the plague of dementia…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 26 Feb 2021

The Father isn't a picnic to watch, but it is -- somewhat ironically, given Anthony's condition -- a movie, and performance, that's hard to forget…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Feb 2021

At once stupendously effective and profoundly upsetting, The Father might be the first movie about dementia to give me actual chills…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 25 Feb 2021

Hopkins makes himself transparent. He lets us see both who this man was and what he is now…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Feb 2021

What might have been predictable or sentimental in other hands becomes startling in the film’s approach, as well as beguiling, unsparing,…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Feb 2021

The Father is an unsettling film, but it’s also a compassionate one; family members of those suffering with dementia can turn to it for an…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Feb 2021

The moment-to-moment pleasures of trying to decipher the plot give way to crushing futility; you’re left sifting through the pieces of a…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Feb 2021

It’s some of the absolute best work of Hopkins’ lengthy and storied career…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Feb 2021

The skillfulness of the telling, paradoxically, can make The Father feel at times almost too painful to sit through; as the story shifts elliptically…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 25 Feb 2021

The chance to see the 83-year-old Hopkins in a role that forces him to confront the tragic fact of human mortality, and his own eventual demise,…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 25 Feb 2021

A clever concept, not a profound film…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 25 Feb 2021

The ending, depending on you, may come off as either too neat or appropriately revelatory. But the film’s emotions have a stark, memorable sheen…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 24 Feb 2021

Sneakily utilizing production design and uncanny good editing, The Father fascinatingly puts the viewer in the same state of distress as its…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 24 Feb 2021

The Father is an excellent movie but it’s not a lot of fun to watch, especially for those with first-hand experience in this area…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 24 Feb 2021

As for Hopkins, he gives a precisely observed performance, capturing Anthony’s confusion without limiting the character to that single quality…

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