Diane

Movie Ranked #37 | 2019 - Drama
Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face.
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Best two reviews:
1) Variety - It’s a tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie, and part of what’s revelatory about it is that it’s a story of boomers who are confronting the ravages of old age (disease and death, the waning of dreams), yet they’re doing it with a stubborn echo of the hopes and desires they had when they were younger. (Rating: 100) Read Full Review >
2) The Playlist - Jones makes both narrative and formalistic leaps, which won’t be spoiled here, that initially are jarring in comparison to the lo-fi aesthetic that precedes it, but truly open the film up to broader implications about how we hold onto the past events and how they constantly resurface. (Rating: 91) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
9) The A.V. Club - An occasionally perceptive and endearingly un-commercial drama undercut by some serious narrative awkwardness. (Rating: 67) Read Full Review >
10) The A.V. Club - In all this, there remains a purposeful if haphazardly realized design. As Diane’s relatives and friends continue to fall away with the passage of time, Jones intensifies the film’s discombobulating rhythms, taking Diane from hard-edged physicality to a more interiorized, subtly dreamlike haze. (Rating: 58) Read Full Review >
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