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Admittedly, I can't watch this without tearing up.
Peter Bradshaw's enthusiastic review appears in the Guardian today (April 1, 2021). Five stars (very rare):
I believe this film will be remembered when all the other 2021 Best Picture noms will be forgotten, cared about still when they are no longer cared about.
That's right: "a wonderful sentimentality." He nails it. Sometimes, sentimentality can be wonderful. This is the celebration of an iconic American - Asian American, Korean American - experience. It's full of pain, but also treasured. It has to be sentimental. Its burden of emotion is too heavy to be anything else. But it's a good sentimentality, a "wonderful" sentimentality.
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