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  Review by iana ★★★★★ 23

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

  elio: *puts oliver’s shorts over his head*
  my mum: wait is he gay

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 24

  “I remember everything.”

  I remember everything. I couldn’t put this film into words if I tried. I couldn’t ever review this, or even explain how personal this felt to me. Every kiss, every movement, every laugh, every dance, every look, goodbye, embrace. If I could, I couldn’t even begin. 

  “I remember everything.”

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  Review by Lucy ★★½ 98

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

  best picture showcase: film #7

  it just doesn’t click. a gorgeous facade, masking the vagueness of the dialogue and intentions and feelings of the characters. dripping with scenic appeal, but i’m only slightly charmed by it. what tries to be one of the most sincere movies in years only feels hollow to me, even when i try to let it in. oliver and elio are different ages, but it’s the maturity level that bothers me here: one, a man, going out by himself until dawn. the other, only a boy, sitting with his parents, being read a fairlytale while it rains outside. he puffs out his chest and acts older than his age. and that’s what it is: an act.…

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  Review by Mark ★★★★½ 12

  So strange that life goes on after finishing a film like Call Me By Your Name.

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  Review by ellie ✨ ★★★★★ 10

  imagine losing your virginity and you're wearing double denim

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★★ 27

  I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful, real, or brutal than the way Elio repeats, “Because I wanted you to know.”

  Because I wanted you to know.

  Loving someone is hard, whether it’s the butterflies you get in the beginning or the weight of the world you feel towards the end. I’ve realized through my relationship that love doesn’t make sense, and with my now 9 viewings of this film, that this movie doesn’t make sense to me either. I truly don’t understand, I could never understand, how Luca, Ivory, and the cast pulled this off. The feeling of love is so hard to replicate because everyone experiences it differently, but there’s something so universal about the looks Elio’s parents…

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  Review by tru ★★★★★ 8

  would it send my italian exchange student the wrong idea if i showed him this film

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 158

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

  cw: abuse, violation of consent

  This year's token queer representation at awards season returns to the fertile grounds Moonlight broke free of: mixing watered-down queerness with predatory stereotypes.

  There's a way to tell this story without delving into this kind of relationship. What this film wants to be is bittersweet. What this film wants to be is quiet, contemplative, achingly beautiful, the feeling of a crush requited, the feeling of discovery and awakening. And you can see that it achieves this with significant portions of its audience, but to engage with that you have to ignore some glaring red flags.

  The film goes out of its way to tell us some things: Elio is 17. Elio is a virgin. Elio…

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  Review by Tasha Robinson ★★½ 84

  Sign me up as the apostate that just doesn't appreciate this one, that doesn't really understand why a long, rambling, sleepy movie about a disconnected, disaffected, insanely rich and privileged teenager moping around until he gets laid is so moving to people. There are better romances, better gay coming-of-age movies, better summer-fling stories, and movies where I don't get really really distracted by watching a dude gut a peach in his bed with his bare hands and then fuck it, making an immense mess for someone else to clean up. I will fight the world on this one.

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  Review by xciellew ★ 128

  I don't get the hype that this movie gets.

  This movie is so problematic and fucking ridiculous. One of the worst representation of bisexual men that I have seen. Here's a list of the things that make me angry or make me roll my eyes:

  1) The age gap and the power dynamics were uncomfortable to watch. Elio is obviously too immature for a relationship with an adult and I felt like Oliver really liked to be in power.
  2) Slurping or blow jobs sounds were INTENSE (also the peach sounds lol)
  3) STOP MAKING BISEXUALS CHEAT ON THEIR FUCKING LOVER -from an angry bisexual :( Thanks for the stereotypessssss fuck off
  4) STOP USING WOMEN TO MAKE THE OTHER…

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  Review by adrie 6

  oliver: later!
  elio: *looks at the camera like he's on the office*

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  Review by Eli Hauser ★★★★★ 26

  damn bich i need that last outfit asap