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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 1

  the hardest puzzle of all… was love.

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  Review by David Sims ★★ 2

  not nearly enough puzzles

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  Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★½ 4

  Likes:
  Oren Moverman
  Kelly Macdonald
  Irrfan Khan

  Dislikes:
  Puzzles
  Watching people do puzzles
  The ending

  So this movie was okay. I really like Kelly Macdonald, but the story and the pacing were really slow. Apparently, this movie is a remake of another film. The ending is for Puzzle is different; I'm not sure it worked.

  Vegan points:
  There is a vegan character who has to explain that no meat means no animal products, not just no red meat.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★½ 2

  "Only children play with puzzles Agnes" - PIECE OF SHIT husband.
  AND
  "How can this be happening?" - Agnes,

  I screamed like four different times during this film.

  If you're like me puzzles make you rock hard so the idea of a puzzle based romantic drama where a woman finds herself is like a one hour and forty minute trip to heaven. This is literally jigsaw puzzle porn. It's the sort of movie that makes you feel dirty for liking it. Picture sentimental romantic music playing over a couple putting together a jigsaw puzzle and exchanging glances. Picture a controlling husband who thinks puzzles are a distraction from wifely duties. Picture a mentoring brown person helping a white woman learn…

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  Review by Vivian ★★★½ 1

  how I wish I could leave my life behind to do puzzles with Irrfan Khan in a lovely New York townhouse

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  Review by StormofCuteness ★★★½

  I am a fan of small intimate films that just allow you to get to know the characters and especially ones with strong acting. Kelly Macdonald has long been a favorite, and this film rises and falls on whether you like her performance--which I did. It's a simple plot, but in this case, the simplicity worked for me on a hot summer day.

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  Review by Jacob ★★★★

  Surprisingly sweet and far less cookie-cutter than I thought it would be. All the senior citizens in the audience around me applauded when it ended. I contributed a few golf claps.

  From the trailer, I thought this looked really plain, but the conservativeness and closed off nature of the protagonist makes her "objectively" small rebellion seem rather extreme. Of course, when she does take more extreme measures, it reads as false, but this mostly maintains a good energy. The humor throughout was greatly appreciated, and the quality of writing there is strongest. Kelly Macdonald is perfectly cast, and it was so easy to root for her character. Her relationships with her puzzle partner and husband are the most significant here,…

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  Review by Cameron Kanachki ★★★½

  Suffers from some blandness at times, along with some poor pacing, but the film is saved by a great cast (especially Kelly Macdonald).

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  Review by russman ★★½ 2

  Missing a few pieces

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  Review by hamfruitcake ★★★★ 4

  This has been on my watchlist for years, in fact it's one of the first films I put on there after seeing it in the film festival circuit. It's finally streaming and tinged with sadness with the passing of Irrfan Khan earlier this year.

  For some reason it felt like the 'The Feminine Mystique' in three acts, but with jigsaw puzzles. At it's core it's about a character searching for fulfilment and it hit me at my emotional core. I just starting weeping midway through and didn't really stop after that. I don't know if it's Kelly Macdonald's sad eyes or her increasingly frustrated husband's behaviour but I really felt this.

  It's meditative and gentle storytelling and a surprisingly easy watch. You know, through my watery eyes.

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  Review by Lisa ★★★★

  Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) lives a quiet life looking after her two adult sons and her husband Louie (David Denman). Her only interests in life are the local church group and her recent interest in puzzles. In fact, puzzles have become an obsession for Agnes and a means of escape from her mundane life

  This movie popped up on Netflix and had a storyline that piqued my interest. Well, what a sweet surprise! Beautiful cinematography, a gorgeous score, a fun, intriguing storyline and brilliant acting. Kelly Macdonald is fabulous as Agnes, and Irrfan Khan's performance is very engaging. He is such an enormous loss :( This story is one of those that particularly resonated with me. I related to Agnes in…

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  Review by Matt ★★★½ 1

  Really lovely story about the downtrodden finding some confidence - albeit via morally dubious tactics. It holds the melancholic honour of being the wonderful Irrfan Khan's last English-language film before we lost him earlier this year too, he really was an actor who made it look easy.