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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 17

  Imagine your worst panic attack.

  Times it by 100.

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 24

  A green Sprite bottle, given almost a mythical introduction in a frenetic monologue, slips out of the hand of a character and roles into a puddle of water. The camera, finally imparted from its intense close-ups to a God's eye long shot, lingers just for a second as it rolls into a puddle where it could be misconceived as trash. An object of everyday life that has been signified with narrative agency (A MacGuffin up there with the Arc of the Covenant) once again resembles its indexical reality. No neon lights or close-ups to enlarge its importance, just a piece of misplaced trash left by some dirtbag scum.

  This movie is what happens when we observe the trash we avert our eyes to—what we're taught to ignore—and really look at what's inside.

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★½ 19

  "I got beat up. I'm the victim here."
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  "Cross the room if you've ever been blamed for something you didn't do."

  Many months before the films North American release, I joked that Good Time looked like "a modern-day Phil Karlson picture" so I was doubly pleasantly surprised when I found that this film approximated that feeling. In his annual love-letter to Cannes, Mark Peranson called the film "a kind of Dionysian New York Gesamtkunstwerk....immersion without identification." Where Good Time might confuse is that the film is outside of its narrative, it is not asking us to identify with its character(s), yet it revels in capturing the leads (Robert Pattinson's) energy - but it's for this same reason I believe…

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  Review by Lucy ★★★½ 7

  i'm never drinking sprite again

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 13

  like a remake of ENTER THE VOID as directed by the ghost of Sidney Lumet. some questionable details and it doesn't sink under the skin quite like Heaven Knows What, but Robert Pattinson is truly next-level in this thing.

  feel like i've said this before, but now it's *really* time to recognize him as one of the best actors of his generation. between him and Kristen Stewart, i'm willing to officially move TWILIGHT into the "win" column, so far as its cultural contributions are concerned.

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  Review by mia ★★★½

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★½ 38

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This movie is really good, but incredibly stressful and incredibly upsetting for two specific scenes: one where something awful happens to Barkhad Abdi that made me really sad, and one where Robert Pattinson has an extremely terrible-to-watch interaction with a 16 year-old that somehow I have not seen ONE person mention in the months since this movie was released while everyone was crowing about how good it was. I can't stop thinking about that one scene and it really put a damper on the entire movie for me. Oof.

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  Review by No Jay Home ★★★★ 10

  when benny safdie sheds a single tear when his therapist says ”the beach” he was thinking of moonlight

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  Review by maria ★★★★½ 6

  owl city and carly rae jepsen's iconic 2012 BOP good time isn't in this movie, totally false advertising, 0/10

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  Review by BRAT ★★★★½ 12

  in that infamous robert pattinson reddit ama, he claims his favorite line he’s said on film is, “don’t be confused, it’s just gonna make it worse for me.” didn’t notice that line on first watch, but on rewatch its gravity was unmistakable, completely centering and solidifying Connie's egocentric perspective.

  Connie Nikas is, to me, a 21st century Nicky Godelin from Elaine May’s Mikey & Nicky, especially considering the Safdies have cited that film as a major influence. he’s so cool, so arresting that you’re forced to do whatever he says, even if you don’t know why you’re doing it. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: hot people make us STUPID!!

  i think the Mikey & Nicky comparison is especially…

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  Review by karsten ★★★★ 13

  Loved it more the second time and found a lot of flaws the second time. I realized this was my gateway into “””challenging””” films my sophomore year of school, which sounds so lame, but is the truth! For that, I’m grateful this film exists for opening up my palette. 

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 3

  I'm never drinking a bottle of Sprite that I found in an abandoned amusement park again