Review: A Star Is Born
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BRUNCH
4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘A Star Is Born’ (starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga) is directed by Bradley Cooper and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Cooper), Best Actress (Gaga), Best Supporting Actor (Sam Elliott), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography and more.
Synopsis:
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers -- and falls in love with -- struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer until Jackson coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jackson fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:
1. Did we like it?
2. How did everyone look?
3. Will we steal stuff from it?
4. Is it problematic?
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| 0:00.0 | Did we like it? |
| 0:04.7 | And how did everyone look? |
| 0:09.0 | Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch. |
| 0:13.5 | Movie reviews. |
| 0:16.0 | A star is born. |
| 0:18.3 | A movie about the birth of a star. You know it. That's our review of a star is born. It was |
| 0:26.5 | nominated for Best Picture. Uh, a, probably the biggest case maybe of too much initial hype for me at |
| 0:35.2 | least. I mean, I saw it and I thought it was very good. And I |
| 0:38.5 | remember there was a lot of pushback because I would say to somebody, not not pushback for me, |
| 0:44.2 | but just like with what, just the reaction I saw, because you'd say like, hey, that was very good. |
| 0:49.9 | And someone would be like, oh, yeah, wasn't it the best? And you were like, no. No, it was very good. |
| 0:54.9 | But people initially were losing their minds of this movie. And over time, it settled down. |
| 1:01.0 | I forget, or I forget what it ended up having on Rotten Tomatoes, but it ended up kind of |
| 1:05.7 | reflecting what I thought, which is like high 70s, low 80s kind of range. Yeah, I'm interested to see what your score ends up being here, because, like, over the |
| 1:14.5 | past few months, you've sort of taken your foot off the gas and being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, |
| 1:19.2 | like, pump the brakes on how great this movie is, but, yeah, like, at first I thought |
| 1:22.7 | you were like, eh, that was above average, but you've since, like, come on and said, I think |
| 1:26.6 | that was above average, but you've since, like, come on, I think that was very good. I said right off the bat, it was very good. And, but everyone was going nuts. So I was, it was not a perfect movie. Right, you can, I get in this fight all the time. You can think something is very good. And that's it. And it's not a knock on the movie. There's so much of that. |
| 1:44.5 | If you make a movie and it ends up being very good, wow. |
| 1:47.7 | Right. |
| 1:48.3 | Very good job. |
| 1:49.2 | Right. |
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