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100A great, haunting film; it affects us in ways we're not used to...it is capable of both lifting our hearts and chilling us to the bone.
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100The Straight Story truly is one from the heart, and it is wonderful.
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100A beautiful, appropriately loping little gem about growing older, daring to take risks and follow your heart. That probably sounds corny, and The Straight Story is.
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100A momentously, shockingly moving fit of shape-shifting by a filmmaker grown tired of the macabre.
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100The best news the G rating has had since the ratings system was instituted in 1968.
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100Farnsworth's embodiment of old American values, with their combination of delicacy, reserve, and stand-alone independence, is a one-of-a-kind treasure.
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100The most atmospheric thing in the movie is Farnsworth's face.
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100The first time I saw The Straight Story, I focused on the foreground and liked it. The second time I focused on the background, too, and loved it.
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100All the actors are good, but it's Farnsworth's brilliantly simple performance that brings The Straight Story so close to greatness.
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100Its simplicity belies an emotional complexity that will linger in your mind like a gentle dream.
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91Lynch's first movie since ''Blue Velvet'' that truly envelops you in its spell. It's a piece of celestial Americana -- his journey to the light side of the moon.
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90Lynch takes us on a journey of shattering understatement -- a remarkable accomplishment.
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90Clear-eyed and open-hearted, The Straight Story (which is based on reality) tells a simple tale, and it does so with a rare, blessed simplicity.
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Switching gears radically, bravely defying conventional wisdom about what it takes to excite moviegoers, Lynch presents the flip side of "Blue Velvet" and turns it into a supremely improbable triumph.
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90Cuts a path directly to the heart.
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88If there is any justice in the world, Farnsworth will be remembered at Oscar time.
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88Lynch's first G-rated feature, turns out to be one of the year's best films...a wonderful surprise.
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83I loved it...Without trying very hard, Farnsworth commands a unique and immensely appealing screen presence that could be called "a compilation of all the great western heroes of the movie past."
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80Oddly enough, this uncharacteristic offering from a director whose name instantly evokes a very particular kind of film -- call it postmodern American gothic -- is also one of his best.
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80And now in The Straight Story, no director has been so buzzingly alert to the emotional lives of those people or to the beauty of the world they inhabit as David Lynch.
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80Indeed heartwarming, though not simplemindedly so.
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80Richard Farnsworth shines as Alvin Straight, a role, one gets the feeling, that he has been preparing for all his life.
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80Alvin's tragic memories give perspective to the triumph of his trek, even as Farnsworth's weathered brilliance makes this movie a G as in gem.
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80Lynch has directed his most satisfyingly disciplined movie.
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80The wonderful Richard Farnsworth plays the lead, and he was clearly born for the part...a highly affecting and suggestive spiritual odyssey.
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79Lynch's faith in the kindness of human nature has been renewed, yet thankfully he's never maudlin. Instead, he wins over our emotions with the film's understated beauty.
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75As slow-moving as the voyage it portrays,...a surprisingly complex view of contemporary life beneath its good-natured surface.
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75An engaging yarn and a moving character study, but it's also a sweet, sad glimpse of everyone's future.
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70Inspirational...unfolds gently with an evenness and rural patience.
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70Sunny as The Straight Story appears, Lynch is still defamiliarizing the normal.
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70Too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing.
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50A snail-paced story in all of its glorious ... slowness.
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