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Lynch has slowed the world down and gotten back in touch with it.
Another pleasant surprise.
Too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing.
One of cinema's most charming actors.
A beautiful and surprisingly gentle film.
A polished supporting cast makes The Straight Story seem almost like a documentary.
Great, but young kids may be bored and restless.
Mainstream-accessible yet completely maintains Lynch's uniquely off-kilter artistic identity.
One could say that The Straight Story is a twilight Western on the order of Unforgiven, except that the pale rider here mounts a snail-paced John Deere instead of a stallion.
A great big can of corn. Kernel corn, not that mushy crap.
I don't know how much is 'based on a true story,' but deeper truth about life, love, and forgiveness rings out loud and clear.
Director David Lynch's American odyssey is a masterwork of quiet poetry.
Farnsworth proves the greatest special effect is the human face.
Lynch has no intention of trying to “explain” what makes Alvin tick or of understanding him in any reductionistic way; of reducing a man to a motivation.
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