'Sentimental Value' is a family drama that lets everyone off the hook too easily
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Few filmmakers are as attuned as Joachim Trier to the inner lives of young people. In superb movies like Reprise, Oslo, August 31st and The Worst Person in the World, he has probed the artistic dreams and frustrated desires of characters trying, and often failing, to figure out who they are. Trier's thoughtfulness is apparent even in his more middling films, like the Jesse Eisenberg drama Louder Than Bombs and the supernatural thriller Thelma, both of which were keyed into the profound ways our families can mess us up.
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