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this movie has [smashes plate] EVERYTHING!!!!!

Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★★½ Liked

You can’t ruin my day if I ruin it myself*

(*rewatch In the Bedroom to feel bad)

Matt Rogers off-camera saying “In The Bedroom nominee” re: Marisa Tomei in Fire Island forever!!!!

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At one point Celia Weston explains what a Disneyworld Fast is to Sissy Spacek, automatic masterpiece.

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Powerful and elegiac, ranking up there with "The Sweet Hereafter" and "The Ice Storm", "In the Bedroom" is a drama of a family marred by a horrific tragedy. Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkenson and Marisa Tomei are equally devastating as a trio of loved ones who lost aspiring architect Nick Stahl.

My favorite scene: Wilkenson and Spacek are verbally duking it out with one another (Wilkenson whispers, “You’re bitter, Ruth,” reverberating quite loudly), only to be interrupted by a little girl selling chocolates. It is a priceless scene in a wrenching film.

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

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In the Bedroom is staggeringly good. It's a powerful indie that exists as a real drama around ordinary people. A young man has his life destroyed and a crisis of family breaks out. One tragedy can tear apart everything, for domesticity is very fragile. Our normal lives take very little to be broken. The power of In the Bedroom comes from its very ordinary mood. It is deeply sad because it doesn't try to be melodramatic or emotional. It just exists. Of course, some of the dramatic turns are not everyday occurrences, but they never feel unreal. The filmmaking is slow and deliberate, with everything carefully and delicately placed. It has a quiet approach that keeps action offscreen, like something…

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sometimes its good to sit and watch a real Actors Movie

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Hadn't seen this in years and was really knocked out by it this time. Classic example (or what should be considered a classic example, in my opinion) of that old adage (which I think is credited to Roger Ebert but I could be wrong) that it's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it. IN THE BEDROOM's is a fairly standard story, but it's one of incredibly quiet and consuming detail. The way that Ruth's eyes latch onto Matt pouring yet another glass of wine, the way that the sound of the lawyer jangling coins in his pocket rises to drown out everything else, Ruth waking to find Matt disassembling the swingset in the middle of…

Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

Todd Field you motherfucker

Review by Chris Feil ★★★★★ Liked

Blistering! Bruising! Classic American drama! The stuff of Arthur Miller and the like! Crushing in its minutiae and its broad strokes! [smashes plates]

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Another sensitive portrayal of human emotion by Todd Field. I love how his sense of direction seems to linger on the details. This one was truly heartbreaking in its depiction of grief. The emotion portrayed was both quiet and deafening. A phenomenal performance by Sissy Spacek.

Review by Ben Empey ★★★★★ Liked

i yearn to be slapped about the face by sissy spacek, in a momentary burst of rage, a fleeting manifestation of the grief she has kept buried for so long ..