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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
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how much it moved you
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Read from 39 comments (34 from Metacritic, 5 from TMDB reviews) — 13 of them described how it moves.
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“not a single frame gave me anything but pain and mental fatigue”
icotzabb · Metacritic ↗
“all we get is boring and mundane”
geewah · Metacritic ↗
“Slow and calm journey in deep secters of your soul”
Hyape · Metacritic ↗
“felt the structure of Paterson would have worked better as a 20 minute short film rather than a two hour long feature”
The3AcademySins · Metacritic ↗
“For me it was a very disturbing film about a war veteran and his partner struggling to make it from one day to the next.”
robj · Metacritic ↗
“A peaceful movie, with a loving couple.”
kathytreece · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 98% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“The whole set-up risks being all too winsome, but Jarmusch has always been a quiet punk: his most radical assertion is believing, despite everything, in the essential goodness of people.”
John Bleasdale, CineVue · 100
“Like the best poetry, Paterson keeps its meticulous construction hidden, letting its impact sneak up on you unawares. When the final image cuts to black, it triggers an overwhelming surge of emotions that’ll make you want to remain seated in the dark until long after the credits have finished rolling, basking in this marvelous film’s afterglow.”
Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage · 100
“Carried by an appropriately low-key Adam Driver and Jarmusch's casual genius for capturing offhand remarks, Paterson is his most absorbing character study since "Broken Flowers" -- and far more grounded in real life. There's no context necessary to recognize it as his most personal work.”
Eric Kohn, IndieWire · 100
“Writer-director Jim Jarmusch often explores existential themes, but they’ve perhaps never been so beautifully unadorned as they are in Paterson, a deceptively modest character piece that’s profound and moving while remaining grounded in the everyday.”
Tim Grierson, Screen Daily · 100
“How Jarmusch takes this match-stick house of nothings and fills it with such calm and wisdom is a mystery with only one real answer: he’s an artist.”
Tim Robey, The Telegraph · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 93, the watch 60
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“not a single frame gave me anything but pain and mental fatigue”
icotzabbabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“all we get is boring and mundane”
geewahabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Slow and calm journey in deep secters of your soul”
Hyapeabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“felt the structure of Paterson would have worked better as a 20 minute short film rather than a two hour long feature”
The3AcademySinsabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“If you appreciate the delicacies of a quiet, slice-of-life dramedy that hinges on the edginess of minimal observations of routine life as an artistic examination then you are in for a delectable treat with the skillful and witty inflections of writer/director Jim Jarmusch’s whimsical and wry offering **Paterson**. Jarmusch, known for his quirky and sedated dramas that include the highly underrated 2005 Bill Murray vehicle _Broken Flowers_ and 2009’s _The Limits of Control_, is back to add to his”
Frank Ochiengread it ↗
“**A week with a bus driver, a part time poet.** The time Jim Jarmusch has struck back. He does not make films often, but those he makes are not easily forgettable. I don't think people hate his films, especially the grown ups. They know how hard the real life is and contents this filmmaker use for his flicks are not much different. But the thing is, in his style, adding a slight fun, romantic, poetic, all together works so well. I still remember how I become his fan after watching 'Stranger T”
Renoread it ↗
“I will go out a limb here (and try not to cut the branch out from under myself) and say that I feel this is nearly a perfect movie. Oh, I don’t mean that it is one of the best of all time, or even that it makes my own top ten list. But rarely does a film live up so well to what it strives to accomplish. It is a quiet and gentle movie, full of love in nearly every scene. The two leads have great chemistry together. Laura almost comes across as a ditzy character, but the more time I spent with ”
Peter McGinnread it ↗
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