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Feb 11, 2022 · 5 min read. The biggest tragedy of “The Sky is Everywhere,” a YA dramedy about a young clarinet prodigy left reeling in the aftermath of her older sister’s sudden passing, is not the death that incites the story, so much as the misfortunate way in which it is told.
Feb 11, 2022 · Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. The Sky is Everywhere is most likely to enchant its Gen-Z target audience with its wildly romantic story set to a tinkling score, but its...
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- Josephine Decker
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- Grace Kaufman
Feb 10, 2022 · In Josephine Decker’s glorious young adult drama “The Sky Is Everywhere,” Lennie (Grace Kaufman) is a high school clarinetist who relearns to embrace life’s joys after the sudden loss of ...
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The Sky is Everywhere is a soul-stirring movie about how young teenagers deal with losing a loved one. Full Review | Jul 21, 2023
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The Sky is Everywhere doesn't fit the immediate pattern of A24, and neither does it exactly fit within its director's filmography. Josephine Decker is a brilliant artist who has been directing some of the strangest psychological thrillers of the past decade. From the indescribable Madeline's Madeline to the downright experimental Thou Wast Mild and...
Beginning the film with Lennie's immense grief still oppressively haunting her months after Bailey's death, as she attempts to return to school, is understandable thematically but a possible narrative misstep. Though there are (extremely brief) flashbacks, the audience has no real feel for who Bailey was and what their relationship was like; The Sk...
The film knows that this is destructive, though. The greatest aspect of The Sky is Everywhere is its clever awareness of the often unhealthy patterns and tropes of romance novels and films. Lennie has self-admittedly read Wuthering Heights 23 times, and has modeled her ideal relationship off of the characters of that romance, Heathcliffe and Cathy,...
Lennie's narration does have the same sort of feel as The Notebook, Twilight, and other young adult romances, but The Sky is Everywhereactually makes it poetic and feel like the novel from which it's based. There are truly beautiful lines interspersed throughout the film, such as, "It’s such a colossal effort not to be shattered by what was lost, b...
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Feb 10, 2022 · ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Review: An Affectation-Overloaded YA Romance. A teenager struggles with grief over her sister’s death and two budding romances in Josephine Decker’s distractingly...
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Feb 10, 2022 · Salacious? Never. Instead Decker and her talented stars find honesty in what could be a ready-made soap opera. Mostly, however, it’s how “The Sky Is Everywhere” feels that makes it so...