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By Monica Castillo (380) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 May 2019

For me, The Souvenir is perhaps the most empathetic movie to capture that kind of bad romance, the way it seeps into every aspect of your life,…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 16 May 2019

Written and directed by the bracingly brilliant Joanna Hogg, this delicate, dazzling memoir traces her own origin story, and there is something…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 15 May 2019

Hogg is not a sensationalistic filmmaker, but rather someone who can convey tremendous amounts of emotion through total tranquility on-screen…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 15 May 2019

The Souvenir feels like a whispered confidence, an intimate disclosure that shouldn’t be betrayed because it isn’t really yours…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 15 May 2019

The Souvenir‘s power is deceptive, in a way; it’s only at the film’s end, at the moment of its bracing final image, that its ideas and…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 15 May 2019

Ambiguous, finely shaded autobiographical dramas like this one don’t generally form the cornerstone of an expanded universe…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 15 May 2019

Hogg has made a gorgeous, haunting movie drawn from a very real place and time…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 May 2019

The story casts a spell, and Swinton Byrne is a milky, beguiling presence; it’s almost as if you’re watching her become a person in real time…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 14 May 2019

At her best — which is more often than you can imagine — Hogg convinces you that incoherence is the only honest way to tell a story with…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 14 May 2019

A hushed, unassuming, intimate movie to remind audiences of the power of cinema by interrogating the definition of cinema itself…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 May 2019

Hogg (“Exhibition”) sets The Souvenir in the 1980s but shoots her subjects with the long-armed reserve of a period piece; the ivory-complexioned…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 12 May 2019

In tackling a story that is presumably, and perhaps painfully, close to home, [Hogg] has made her farthest-reaching film yet…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 May 2019

There are times when The Souvenir has the buttoned-up, removed manner of a costume drama…

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By Anthony Ray Bench (69) for Film Threat (5,156) on 12 May 2019

To me, the film is boring, lifeless, too dreary for its own good, and has really annoying quirks and habits that just irritate me…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 19 Feb 2019

While it’s unspooling, The Souvenir feels like the only film in the world—the only one that matters…

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By Rory O’connor (154) for CineVue (2,163) on 15 Feb 2019

As heartbreaking as it is acutely observed, Hogg’s deep-diving autobiographical film is a beautiful, confessional tell-all about the brief…

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By Tomris Laffy (1) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Feb 2019

The result is the best kind of fine art: heartbreaking, sophisticated and deeply cinematic all at once…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 02 Feb 2019

It may have taken Hogg several decades to realize that her own box of darkness was actually a beautiful gift, but she unwraps it with the care…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Feb 2019

Survived pain arises as both a vehicle for growth and catalyst for the revaluation of one’s impetus in Joanna Hogg’s introspectively awe-inspiring…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen International (2,241) on 02 Feb 2019

This portrait of the artist as a young film-maker will certainly stand the test of time…

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