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The World to Come review: Achingly predictable, insufferably affected lesbian drama
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metroweekly.comBrokeback Mountain, and it carries the emotional weight of the 2005 gay love story through its stark, brutal, brilliant directness.
Regrettably, there is no such standout phrase in The World to Come, which has been pre-hailed by some as the lesbian Brokeback.
Frankly, it is nothing of the sort.The characters in The World to Come (★★☆☆☆) speak in an affected, irritating manner, tossing out words like “asperity” as though engaged in some kind of crossword battle.
It grates on you until all you want to do is beg them to please be quiet.Much of the verbiage in The World to Come is imposed onto the film by needless voice-over narration.
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