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  1. 14 hours ago · Credit: A24. One of the best films of 2022 lands on Netflix today, though fair warning: Get your tissue box ready. This one’s a tear-jerker. The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is a drama ...

  2. Dec 9, 2022 · 5 min read. “The Whale” is an abhorrent film, but it also features excellent performances. It gawks at the grotesquerie of its central figure beneath the guise of sentimentality, but it also offers sharp exchanges between its characters that ring with bracing honesty.

  3. Dec 9, 2022 · Director Darren Aronofsky’s new drama is the kind that leans into relentless agony, demoralization, rage — and mostly within the confines of a single living room, the space where we watch a 600-pound teacher deteriorate emotionally and physically.

  4. Dec 9, 2022 · Heavy and depressing as The Whale is, Brendan Fraser’s captivating and powerful performance lifts your heart. The Whale is based on the play of the same name by Samuel D. Hunter, and if that’s...

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  5. Sep 4, 2022 · For a film that opens with a 40-stone man suffering chest spasms after masturbating to online pornography, The Whale turns out to be disappointingly stodgy and sentimental.

  6. 2 days ago · Darren Aronofsky’s drama film ‘The Whale’ presents the tragic story of a man’s dying days as he searches for atonement. Charlie, who struggles with chronic obesity, lives alone as a reclusive online English teacher. Apart from his friend, Liz, the man has no one else in his life as he grapples with the crushing grief […]

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  8. Dec 8, 2022 · “The Whale” is not always pleasant to watch but the payoff and performances make it an astounding film. Stationary and wheezing on his couch, Charlie is repeatedly visited by a constellation of people — a friendly nurse, his teenage daughter and a young missionary from an apocalyptical church.

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