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The chief virtue of “Monica” is its restraint and its patience.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Screen Daily by Fionnuala Halligan
A quietly thoughtful and impressively acted drama.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Jon Frosch
A sluggish exercise in formalism ... [Monica] feels like a movie perpetually struggling to connect.
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Spare but poignant, "Monica" is a pensive family drama that’s loaded with the empty space of things left unsaid.
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The Playlist by Marshall Shaffer
At its best, Pallaoro’s quiet film wields the paradoxical power of cinema to create pure illusion.
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Conceived with uncommon sensitivity toward the interior lives of its characters, as well as to the shifting codes of trans representation, “Monica” is a film about making amends.