Still Alice (2014)
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Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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100
It’s extremely moving in the gentlest, most linear way, and the other performances are sterling, too.
100
Ms. Moore shares her journey with boundless generosity. She makes you feel what it’s like to lose the wind beneath your wings.
100
The rare film possessed with the courage required to shine a light into that abyss knowing full well that down is the only way out.
91
The film lives and dies on Moore’s portrayal. She succeeds smashingly.
90
The toll the disease takes on the life of a brilliant linguistics professor is superbly detailed by Julianne Moore in a career-high performance, driving straight to the terror of the disease and its power to wipe out personal certainties and identity.
