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Manchester by the Sea
Positive Reviews
217
Negative reviews
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1.5
Its a theater workshop exercise that does not, for me, reveal much.
Rob's Movie Vault
4.5
This is a staggering American drama, almost operatic in the heartbreak it chronicles, thats also attuned to everyday headaches, like forgetting where ..
Av Club
3.5
Manchester by the Sea is a small movie about emotions grander than any hundred million dollar spectacle.
Den Of Geek
3.8
But Lonergan wrings so many nuanced exchanges out of a first rate set of performances that the story rarely drags or rings false.This is a filmmaker w ..
Indie Wire
5.0
Its nice to see a movie where everyone is relatively nice and just trying their best.
We Got This Covered
4.5
And the films greatest gift of all may be that it declines to tidy up after itself, prettifying lifes messiness with a finishing bow.
Austin Chronicle
5.0
Manchester by the Sea contains multiple detonations, the kind a lesser drama would save for its climax.
Time Out
4.5
A sequence, featuring Lonergan regular Matthew Broderick, where theres an attempted reconciliation with Patricks mother doesnt quite come off, but its ..
Screen Daily
4.5
It is a deeply felt, honest, and profoundly human film that once again proves that Lonergans knack for capturing emotional honesty onscreen is unmatch ..
Collider
4.5
It is a deeply felt, honest, and profoundly human film that once again proves that Lonergans knack for capturing emotional honesty onscreen is unmatch ..
Collider
5.0
Manchester by the Sea understands this in a fundamental way.Every aspect of the film seeks to make an emotional connection with the audience via speci ..
Collider
4.5
Affleck proves he can convey suffering as well as any actor alive. His trebly voice is cracked with pain. He comes with his own chill fog.
Vulture
4.2
And so it is again with Manchester by the Sea, a movie with a grand scope but an intimate story.
Paste Magazine
5.0
This film by playwright turned filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan contains multitudes of emotions, people and ideas, in such abundance that if you ask somebod ..
Rogerebert
4.5
Kenneth Lonergan returns with this emotional, devastating masterpiece.Grief is a terrible thing.
IGN
4.0
Lonergan is so precise with his actors, the sense of place, and the level control of tone that you feel him methodically striving here to avoid false ..
Telegraph
5.0
Following a long respite from filmmaking Kenneth Lonergan turned what was essentially an early Oscar prestige picture into something of an American cl ..
The Young Folks
5.0
Love And Friendship is a comedy of words and inauthentic communication.
The Young Folks
5.0
Full of loss and grief and the grey skies of a wintry Massachusetts, Manchester by the Sea can sound like a pretty dreary two hours at the movies. Its ..
Ny Daily News
4.5
While it remains to be seen if the Academy will embrace something thats debuting on a streaming service, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA is intensely cinematic ..
JoBlo
4.5
Coupled with the emotionally raw (and believable) performances from its ensemble cast and the observant writing/direction from Kenneth Lonergan and Ma ..
Screen Rant
5.0
Another admirable thing about Manchester by the Sea is that Hedges performance in the role of this young Lothario is often very funny as Lonergan surp ..
The Globe And Mail
4.4
What Loneregans film suggests is how one can bear them with a measure of grace.
Philly
5.0
Writer and director Lonergan has crafted an elegant and spiritually sobering character driven film about the chilling dimensions of grief, loss, guilt ..
Spirituality And Practice
4.5
In the hands of Lonergan and his exceptional cast, the deceptively simple story becomes a shattering tale of shared grief that carries a powerful weig ..
One Guys Opinion
4.5
Its an exceptional classical drama, thats intelligently scripted and acted.
Sover
4.5
10 1 10 / 10 Due to various reasons, some of them legally inclined, Kenneth Lonergan doesnt make movies very often. Manchester by the Sea is his third ..
Blu Ray
4.4
But 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.
Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
Lonergans film is a marvel of compassion and character specific observation.
Mark Reviews Movies
5.0
Manchester finds a way to weave together truly wrenching sequences with a clever sense of humor, and Lonergan pulls extraordinary performances from hi ..
Usa Today
5.0
Perhaps the most emotionally intelligent film you will see this year stars Casey Affleck as a blue collar worker who is suddenly landed with caring fo ..
The Times
3.8
Although this is a heavy drama, it is offset with quite a bit of humor.
Lariat
3.8
Some movies are about people being broken by tragedy and finding a way to carry on.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
And while its not quite the same scorched earth triumph, Manchester by the Sea possesses a lot of the same novel like textures and soul gutting perfor ..
News Review
4.0
Admirers of Lonergans previous output will know what to expect (death and guilt), and the tragedy is laid on even thicker this time.
Radio Times
5.0
While it might not be everyones cup of tea especially if youve contemplated what will or would have happened to your kids should something had or migh ..
Screen It
4.0
Writer director Kenneth Lonergan specialises in studies of grief, guilt, and bewilderment.You dont watch his movies in the hope of the kind of New Yea ..
Independent
5.0
No film this year has moved me more with its humor, heart and humanity.
Rolling Stone
1.5
Whereas Sweden was commonly held up as a political economic Third Way between the capitalist West and the communist Iron Curtain, the budding or chafi ..
Pop Matters
4.5
Its sad and funny and real.Though its flaws a certain narrative predictability and characters that rarely disappoint after you initially peg them are ..
The Wrap
5.0
Thats a testament not only to Lonergans film as a whole but to Afflecks sublime, unforgettable performance.
News Day
4.5
If most of its people achieve redemption, it is not something they actively seek, or even want.
Cs Monitor
5.0
But Kenneth Lonergan moves at a different pace than most Hollywood directors.
Film Journal
5.0
After a fire related disaster, Lee still manages almost to burn the house down by falling asleep with a pan on the stove.It is a brilliant moment of a ..
The Guardian
4.0
As Margaret demonstrated, Lonergans films have always been more like works in progress than perfectly finished artefacts.For all its moments of discor ..
The Guardian
3.0
Manchester by the Sea is a study of family dysfunction and the worse loss imaginable, but one held back by the fact its all filtered through Afflecks ..
The Guardian
5.0
It manages this even when its funny, which is surprisingly often.
Az Central
5.0
Perhaps this sounds like a family weepie of the kind weve seen many times before.In fact, in the hours after the movie ends, you may find yourself str ..
Npr
3.8
The film ends on a note of grace and hope, but its hard won and hardly unequivocal.
Q Network
4.5
There are unexpected moments of humor, redemption, and grace.Lonergan has given us a masterpiece.
Ew
5.0
Lonergans character study never opts for the easy way out with sudden realizations, or breakthroughs with certain characters.
Cinema Crazed
4.5
This is a movie that can contain multitudes, from the stark contemplation of deaths inexorability to the quotidian annoyance of forgetting where you p ..
Slate
5.0
It is a film that emphatically deserves to be in the mix come awards time, from a director who knows that you dont need fast paced action, or expensiv ..
Flim List
4.5
Manchester by the Sea features brilliant work from director Kenneth Lonergan and all of its actors, especially Casey Affleck.
Film Inquiry
5.0
Masterfully told and beautifully acted, Manchester By The Sea is a shattering yet graceful elegy of loss and grief.
Empire
4.5
Grief ages into sorrow and sorrow is an enduring rider, wrote Dean Koontz a quote which perfectly describes the tone of Kenneth Lonergans Manchester b ..
Susang Ranger
5.0
An exemplary film of such exceptional wisdom, beauty, clarity, sensitivity and emotional depth that I had to rub my eyes to believe it.
Observer
4.0
Kenneth Lonergans searing drama about grief, family, and acceptance is made even more powerful by its deep well of empathy and its unforgettable perfo ..
Common Sense Media
5.0
Manchester by the Sea is a very moving and genuine slice of filmmaking about loss and how we attempt to keep moving on in life.
Flickering Myth
4.5
This is definitely not that kind of story; Manchester by the Sea is astonishingly depressing.
Flim Threet
3.8
Affleck is magnificent, but the movie is something less than that, because it cant completely overcome some built in challenges. Even so, Manchester b ..
Sf Gate
4.0
Wheres the horse that goes with it.Maybe it can breathe on us and warm us up.
New Yorker
5.0
But maybe the only way to take the true measure of a places terror and beauty is to leave it like a bat out of hell, only to be drawn back.
Time
2.0
While I dont normally like films that employ emotional sucker punches to intensify my response, I responded mostly without cynicism to the heartbreaki ..
Boston Herald
4.4
The film gradually comes to its sense of exquisitely calibrated, hardened intimacy.
Slant Magazine
5.0
Every tear is more than earned in a story that never feels anything less than unfailingly authentic.
Washington Post
5.0
Mr. Lonergan is more interested in guilt than in criminality, and less concerned with nostalgia than with the psychology of loss.
The New York Times
4.2
There are no cliches here, and Lonergan flawlessly carves out the most sincere moments to reveal a sprawling, deeply affecting odyssey of emotional re ..
The Film Stage
5.0
By contrast, a handmade human tragedy about the kind of people you see at the supermarket needs to sneak up on you if its to work its magic.Even if it ..
Boston Globe
3.8
Robin Clifford Laura Clifford Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) has lived off of the family grid following a personal tragedy years before when he receives ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Robin Clifford Laura Clifford Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) has lived off of the family grid following a personal tragedy years before when he receives ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
This is good advice.This is not a short movie, nor is it a quickly paced movie.
Uproxx
4.0
In Manchester by the Sea, men are soulful and women are shallow, a gender gap that wounds this otherwise compelling drama.
The Irish Times
4.2
Lonergan doesnt push those beats too hard.But as his characters and his viewers begin to have some sense that the end is approaching, the movies seemi ..
Blogs Indie Wire
4.4
Its not cinematic fast food.If you want superficial entertainment, Manchester by the Sea will disappoint.
ReelViews
4.5
The result is something that feels more akin to a full meal than the usual cinematic popcorn.
Hollywood Reporter
4.5
In the brooding Affleck, Lonergan has found a perfect leading man, and together theyve made a drama of rare powera tale of human suffering that succee ..
The Atlantic
2.8
Manchester is hardly an inspirational or life affirming piece.Instead its about coping with loss and grief.
Lyles Movie Files
3.5
While Affleck gives a good performance as the chronically depressed Lee, there is absolutely no range required.
Tony Medley
4.8
As is appropriate for a picture of such powerful emotional and gutsy substance, you might want a stiff belt after seeing it.One things for certain; Ma ..
Coles Mithey
5.0
The call is from a hospital near Manchester: Older brother Joe has had a heart attack.
Los Angeles Times
4.4
Quiet, unassuming and direct, Kenneth Lonergans (Margaret, You Can Count on Me) third directorial effort is a startlingly effective melodrama filled w ..
Movie Freak
4.5
Its painful and tragic, yet its cut with elements of humor and laughter.
Detroit News
5.0
beautifully textured, richly enveloping drama about how a death in the family forces a small town New Englander to confront a past tragedy anew.
Variety
4.4
Lonergans pronounced sense of humor makes bearable the storys unfathomable grief.
Groucho Reviews
5.0
The story rather feels organic and believable from start to finish.
Cnn
4.4
And while the movie does lose a little of its intensity in its final stretch, Manchester by the Sea, by and large, manages to hold the viewer rapt for ..
Reel Film
5.0
Ive found it really hard to write about Manchester by the Sea, because it sunk into my bones so deeply its hard to extract. Yet just thinking about it ..
Vox
5.0
His follow up feature Manchester by the Sea should, however, face a rather more straightforward release, particularly given this breathtaking drama ha ..
Hey U Guys
5.0
With his third and finest film achievement, Kenneth Lonergan vividly presents the everyday drama and comedy of people just trying to figure life out, ..
The Star
5.0
Ive wondered often since seeing Manchester by the Sea how Lee is doing. Well, I hope.
Film Freak Central
4.0
A devastating scene between Lee and his ex (Michelle Williams) is one of the best written and performed sequences Ive ever seen on film.
Now Toronto
5.0
There are no contrivances, no manipulations, no false notes. Lonergans film rings true as the complex relationships and multi layered intricacies of g ..
Urban Cine File
4.8
Affleck is nothing short of pure magic here, giving what is maybe the most emotionally brutal, raw, and unpredictable performance of any film in recen ..
Film Ink
4.0
For sure, this is hardly material the hands of cinema havent puttered with time and time again.
Ner Dist
4.0
Desolation can stem from a moments minor misjudgment and putting it right is sometimes impossible.
The Age
3.5
The great moments are haunting, though theyre buried deep within a numbing amount of extraneous normalcy.
5.0
What Lonergan proves with Manchester by the Sea is that no basic premise must be original to make an excellent film.All you need is honesty and an und ..
La Weekly
5.0
If ever there was a film that epitomised the saying no pain, no gain, this is it. Packs a real wallop.
Games Radar
5.0
Affleck eschews all the actors cliches burning intensity, soulful suffering, haunted brooding.Its a magnificently interior performance, the sort of ac ..
New York Post
5.0
It is a deeply moving study of coping with abject grief, yet it is not profoundly grim.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
Casey Affleck delivers a career best performance in Kenneth Lonergans stunning meditation on loss.There is too much going on in Manchester by the Sea ..
Lw Lies
5.0
Forget the bucket loads of blood Mel Gibson unleashes on the battlefield in Hacksaw Ridge, in this American drama the cumulative power of grief, guilt ..
Abc
4.0
Here, Lonergan has brought to the big screen a heartbreaking tale of social tragedy.
Nz Herald
4.0
What transpires is a no frills story of grief and loss, eschewing giant cinematic symphonies and dramatic cry fainting for the quiet, sometimes bleakl ..
Nz Herald
4.0
For an Oscar hopeful, writer/director Kenneth (You Can Count On Me, Margaret) Lonergans wry, wrenching drama begins in about as mundane a manner as ca ..
Flicks
3.1
And a scene that should be emotionally overwhelming gets botched with overdone strings, cuing drama that needs no outside assistance.
Red Eye Chicago
4.5
Manchester by the Sea and the Saddest Handyman The history of American men on screen is the history of repressed emotion.
The Stranger
4.5
It is one of the most real, heartbreaking films youll see. Lonergans elegiac story is brutally honest and brutally real.
Cleve Land
5.0
Great dramas; dodgy drama triggers.).But once it hits open water, once it spreads its quiet roar and emotional reach, this is a marvellous film, harro ..
Ft
4.0
This may not be the cheeriest movie of the season, but its so skilfully written, directed and acted that its impossible not to be pulled into its powe ..
Contact Music
4.6
Sometimes maybe, but more often what doesnt kill you diminishes you, takes away a part of who you might have become.You dont always get to survive you ..
Ar Kansas Online
5.0
Manchester By The Sea transcends its trappings to become a mini classic
Film Racket
4.4
This isnt a movie in which anyones heart is really warmed; the best we can hope for is a bit of a thaw.
Larsen On Film
4.5
But its a shattering scene between Affleck and Williams that gives the film its biggest emotional wallop.
Vanity Fair
5.0
If this all sounds like a long hard stretch in miseryland, thats not quite how it pans out.
The Arts Desk
5.0
Kenneth Lonergans third feature as a writer director is a drama of surpassing beauty, and Casey Afflecks portrayal of the janitor,..
Wsj
4.8
But its also rewarding in how reaffirming it is to see a man so utterly defeated by life find hope where and when he least expects.Its a lock that Lon ..
Patriot Ledger
4.4
1 of 3 View Caption Lee (Casey Affleck, right) is given custody of his teen nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges), in a scene from the drama Manchester This i ..
Sltrib
4.0
Dont expect any easy resolutions, though; even with chinks of light, Lonergan leaves you feeling heartbroken for these wounded souls.
Scmp
4.5
Given the heavy material, the biggest surprise offered by the movie is its comedy.
The Film Pie
3.5
Affleck embodies the heavy weight of guilt Lee carries, delivering a perfectly sullen, brilliant performance.
Punch Drunk Critics
4.0
Some films you watch to impose a satisfactory narrative onto the seemingly random chaos of life.
Sandiego Reader
4.5
Despite the heart breaking premise, the film is filled with unexpected moments of humour and warmth.
Film Companion
4.5
Nevertheless, its one of the years two or three best performances.
Cinemix Tape
4.5
Manchester is smaller than Margaret but bigger than You Can Count on Me.
The Ringer
4.5
Every gesture carries the faint rumblings of an internal avalanche.
News Week
5.0
The film is a kind of Rorschach Test: You may spend the film fighting through tears, or you may spend most of it suppressing belly laughs.
Metro New York
4.5
Its a formula that makes for great drama; in real life things are rarely that simple.
Sbs
4.5
Lonergans screenplay is simply amazing and could very well win the Oscar.
Solzy At The Movies
4.5
This is not unheard of in (for lack of better terminology) real life; we feel multiple things simultaneously, or pivot from one big emotion to another ..
Flavor Wire
3.8
As the tormented Lee, Affleck renders one of the years finest performances.
Daily Herald
3.8
It generates quite a few laughs, likely more than one might expect, but leads to a satisfying yet cold finale.
Awards Circuit
4.5
It captivates without ever calling attention to itself.It feels real.
Crave Online
5.0
In less masterful hands, this slow reveal might have felt manipulative.
The Skinny
5.0
Weve seen Affleck in this kind of role before: a tightly wound and deeply flawed man who exudes a quiet but unmistakable simmering menace.
No La
4.5
In hindsight, the drama is not just one of the best films from Sundance 2016; its one of the best films of the year.
The Verge
5.0
Very simply, Manchester by the Sea is one of the best films of 2016. Multiple Oscar nominations are in its future. Brace yourself and dont miss it.
Or Lando Weekly
4.5
For all that its about grief and tragedy, Manchester is surprisingly light on its feet.Lonergan is such a great writer of dialogue, and characters hav ..
Lainey Gossip
1.0
As for Affleck, it would be refreshing to see him portray a wisecracking, devil may care life of the party for once.
East Bay Express
5.0
It could become a feel good saga with life lessons and redemption.
Seven Day Svt
2.5
It may depend on how much of a fan you are for lingering guilt.Manchester by the Sea is well made and solid, but it is not a great movie.
Tony Mack
4.0
Afflecks performance deserves all the plaudits its gotten the glassiness that only snaps into focus in moments of peevishness and rage, the vestiges o ..
Bfi
4.0
Despite the bleak subject material, there are bright flickers of fury and tenderness and humour.
Bfi
5.0
Manchester by the Sea may take its time making itself heard, but you can count on it.
National Post
5.0
Writing this is making me sad all over again, so lets end by saying that the acting throughout is exceptional, and that Affleck is phenomenal: Its a b ..
People
5.0
As painfully sad as all this sounds not once does the film feel forced or overdone. Yes theres tragedy, but it always sits believably alongside the ev ..
Sky
4.5
The films only downside is that it reminds us how damn long it takes Lonergan to write and direct a movie. But if the results are this extraordinary, ..
Third Coast Review
3.5
If Affleck were not up against Denzel Washington for the upcoming Best Actor Oscar honour, he would be a shoo in to win.
The New Paper
4.5
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Winnipeg Free Press
3.2
For a decade, Hollywoods ecosystem has favored actors buff enough to star in one action franchise per year.
M Tv
5.0
All three actors are sure to draw some serious consideration come awards season, as will the film itself.Easily one of the years best!
Media Mikes
5.0
Trust this great actress to cut to the heart of things with a burst of pure, clarifying grief.
Fw Weekly
5.0
Hes matched with a superb performance by the young Lucas Hedges, who delivers a more thoughtful variation of teenage angst.Theres warmth and a relief ..
Columbus Alive
4.4
The sort of understated, under the radar drama that can use all the help it can get to stand out in an increasingly overcrowded marketplace.
Film Frenzy
2.8
Its meditation on grief and internal agony is fine enough yet neither groundbreaking nor interesting to watch.
Reel Talk Online
4.4
The film isnt an emotional knockout.Lonergans free flowing, messy storytelling, while capturing the untidiness of life, can prove counterproductive ov ..
Sf Examiner
4.0
Though the movie is sprinkled with quite a bit of humor (much more than youd expect for the subject matter), Manchester by the Sea is ultimately a por ..
Blog Bullz Eye
5.0
The picture unfolds with a naturalists eye for real world drama mixed with a deep spiritual struggle.
Am Ny
1.5
Its a well made film: expertly acted, competently sketched, and the kind of adult driven drama we need more of these days.
Washington City Paper
4.5
All the cast deliver strong performances, in particular Affleck and Hedges.
Film Ireland
4.5
Another strength is how Lonergin acknowledges the different ways we respond to loss and grief.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
The story evolve into a paranoiac tale of generational and gender conflict, all told in a bold tone.
Battleship Pretension
5.0
Rather than grounds for tragedy, it seems like the springboard of an old sitcom.
Metro Active
5.0
It may be a potent examination of grief, family and self imposed solitude, but its also oddly life affirming and uplifting.
News
4.5
It deals with very real, very difficult human situations but does so with honesty and a great deal of unexpected humour and wisdom.
Richard Crouse
4.5
While terribly, even hauntingly painful at times, Manchester by the Sea is also generously funny, which is rather odd given that its a film about grie ..
Adelaide Review
3.8
This deceptively straightforward drama packs a wallop, which is especially noteworthy considering Afflecks contained performance.
Film Forward
3.5
Manchester by the Sea, while not a great film, is an honest lesson in grief.
Kdhx
3.0
Under the expert direction of writer director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me), the relationship between uncle and nephew unfolds delicately.
Aarp
4.5
Manchester by the Sea is a sprawling emotional saga about grief and loss.
Kpbs
5.0
And your heart.Few movies can handle that delicate juggling act in which profound grief alternates with wickedly well observed humor.
Saportare Port
3.8
Sublimely modulated performances and a deeply felt sense of place highlight Manchester by the Sea.
The Film File
5.0
Not everything broken, this wise movie reminds us, can be mended.
Seattle Times
4.0
Lonergan, who also writes the solid script, adjusts the films gloomy background with cautious authorship that, while seemingly simple, is shamelessly ..
2.5
The result is something perfectly fine, and all the more disappointing for it.
Cinema Scope
4.4
It is, to be sure, one of the most affecting films of this surprising year. Its about how very much emotion some lives are required to contain silentl ..
Buffalo News
5.0
Ultimately, it offers a catharsis that makes the often wrenching drama worthwhile.
Leonard Mal
4.5
Despite the films somber tone, theres a truth and honesty in Lonergans surprisingly complex story that will weave its way into your heart.
Showbiz Junkies
4.5
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Enfil Me
4.5
Forget proof of life; this is undeniable proof of something far more elemental: love.
City Beat
4.5
In Manchester by the Sea, writer director Kenneth Lonergan studies this brand of maleness defined by emotional reluctance and reticence while adroitly ..
Junkee
4.5
All of this heat and containment is carried in Afflecks performance.
The Tyee
4.5
Otherwise, its a fantastic picture that brings out the sheer beauty of its titular setting.
The Blus Pot
4.5
Kenneth Lonergans film is a humane examination of the suffering of an ordinary man, whose terrible personal tragedy has emotionally crippled him.
World Socialist Web Site
5.0
Lonergan has created an unrelenting portrait of grief that drains you, but also captures and stirs your heart.
Reel Bob
4.4
Lonergan and his cast perfect the art of the verbal squabble, funny and sad, vibrant and testy.It feels like life.
M Live
5.0
An undercurrent of dry humour makes its way into even the most tragic of sequences.
Daily Telegraph
5.0
The terrain is breathtaking as much for its inaccessibility as its beauty.
Daily Public
4.5
Given all that, I wish I loved it more; it is certainly the Lonergan film thats blown me away the least.
Reviews Antagony Ecstasy
3.5
The Edge of Seventeen The Edge of Seventeen is the kind of modest, funny teen movie that we dont see enough of these days.
Bk Mag
5.0
Beset by delays and obstructions and then reborn in a directors cut, Margaret may well have become a cause celebre.But a years long limbo can take its ..
Bk Mag
5.0
One of the years best pictures, not least thanks to a remarkable performance by Casey Affleck.
Haaretz
5.0
It might seem odd to describe a film about unendurable grief and sadness as a distractiona word we more often associate with entertainment, escape, an ..
Ny Books
4.2
But great and constant sorrow can absolutely co exist with belly laughs Lonergan knows its how we stay human.And humane.
My States Man
4.0
But what is surprising and is the films greatness is its lack of urgency to pursue this theme.
Mubi
4.5
Manchester by the Sea is one of the best films of the year. Its cathartic, and it reminds us that even in the dark waters of grief, were never truly a ..
About Boulder
5.0
It might well be a movie about love, loss and grief but to summarise it merely as such would not do it justice.
Ib Times
5.0
Yet somehow at the same time it cant be overstated how funny this movie is.Manchester by the Sea would probably be hailed as one of the years best com ..
Wbur
4.4
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The Cinema Phile Blog
2.0
Manchester by the Sea isnt concerned with finality or even redemption, rather the mess of life, unmoored from the belief that everything will be okay.
Four Three Film
5.0
Stunningly acted and superbly written, this is a heart breaking study of loss and human connection thats shot through with raw emotion.
I News
3.5
Whilst Manchester by the Sea didnt resonate with me entirely, its hard to deny that capture of realism which works so well.
4.5
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Seventh Row
4.5
Manchester By The Sea doesnt play by the rules and that is its greatest asset as a film. It will break even the toughest cynic in the world.
KSDK
4.4
These rugged folks dont articulate their feelings, but those feelings run deep, and Lonergan finds continually inventive ways to express them in this ..
Good Times
4.0
Damon would have brought different beats to the role but Affleck offers a strong, committed performance.
Un Cut
5.0
All of Lonergans films are some combination of sad and bittersweet, but Manchester By the Sea is positively crushing.If it werent for the films occasi ..
Baltimore Magazine
5.0
Its an extremely human story of how grief and depression can eat away at the soul and leave its victims a hollowed out shell.
Franks Reel Reviews
5.0
Casey Afflecks performance in Manchester By The Sea is one of the most effectively crafted portrayals of the crippling weight of grief in recent movie ..
Graffiti With Punctuation
3.8
Make no mistake, this is a fine, well made movie that contains solid performances and perhaps the most moving moment Ive witnessed in cinema this year ..
News Gazette
5.0
Revealing anything more might ruin the emotional twists and turns of it all.
Blog Cleveland
4.5
Lonergan masterfully directs a humane film that explores a very simple concept, that is then expanded to reveal a redemption and mourning story.
Pólvora
5.0
It is one of the films funnier moments, if not necessarily a joke for everyone.
America Magazine
5.0
His movies feel utterly real, almost like documentaries, but they are artfully constructed.Every moment, every line in Manchester by the Sea is carefu ..
J Post
4.5
In the end, what makes the film stand apart isnt its authentic flavours or visceral performances, but the storys integrity a rare commitment to truth ..
Cbc
5.0
Indeed, theres nothing prototypical here, as the films capacity for vulnerability and naturalism bonds its audience to the material.
Deep Focus Review
4.5
The film is the portrait not of a man but of his self loathing, which needs an environment and community to reflect off of, like the moon reflects sun ..
Review Film Review
5.0
But Manchester by the Sea is not one of those slice of life movies that leaves you feeling like nothing actually happened.It shows you big, life chang ..
Pitch
5.0
A showcase in the power of understatement...Manchester By The Sea achieves great impact by feeling devastatingly real.
City Am
4.5
Manchester by the Sea defies description in a really, really good way. Its not flashy or formulaic in the way some fish out of water stories are. Inst ..
4.0
The writer/director doesnt avoid the leg work and turns those minor indignities of everyday life into representations of inner turmoil.
The Canadian Crew
4.4
Manchester by the Sea is a study of guilt and the complexity of recovering from it. A modern day tragedy that will surely bring tears but also bring h ..
4.5
Moonlight is the more formally distinctive, the more perfectly realised of the two films, but Lonergans film is haunting in its own way.
Australian Book Review
5.0
Albinonis Adagio has acted as a portent of doom many times in cinema but never before have I found it quite so apt.
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