Paterson

You’ve beheld Adam Driver as Kylo Ren; now meet Kylo Zen. In Jim Jarmusch’s new film Paterson, he plays a guy called Paterson, who happens to live in Paterson, New Jersey, his birthplace, where he drives a bus (number 23) with his surname naturally emblazoned on it.

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The new movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch is a total fantasy. This in spite of being shot on the streets of the New Jersey city in which it is set, and for which the movie itself and its lead character are named.

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Like the best poetry, Paterson keeps its meticulous construction hidden, letting its impact sneak up on you unawares. When the final image cuts to black, it triggers an overwhelming surge of emotions that’ll make you want to remain seated in the dark until long after the credits have finished rolling, basking in this marvelous film’s afterglow.

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Adam Driver mellows out in Jim Jarmusch’s beautiful ode to ordinary living, Paterson.

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Poems slip across the screen like water in “Paterson,” Jim Jarmusch’s wonderful new dispatch from Jarmusch-land. Sometimes they appear over water, too, surfacing word by word on images of the Great Falls along the Passaic River in Paterson, N.J.

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TThere are certain cinematic signposts that indicate that you’ve officially entered the land of Jim Jarmusch.

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Indie-film legend and Adam Driver turn deadpan comedy about a New Jersey bus-driving poet into a quiet celebration of everyday people.

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The movie is about finding the beauty in everyday things (Ohio Blue Tip matches should do awfully well out of it) and the understated cinematography from Frederick Elmes certainly does that, complemented by a score from sound designer Drew Kunin that feels, with its hopeful electro drones and washes, like having your head cradled and your hair gently smoothed back from your temples.

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The director has made a wonderful film about the practical, the intuitive, the homespun.

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Jim Jarmusch’s new movie is a quiet delight: the story of a gentle, artistic man and his wife which celebrates small-town life and dreams without patronising.

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Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver and poet who lives in Paterson, New Jersey, whose existence follows a quiet, humdrum pattern. And it’s him the film follows, over eight typical days in his life.

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Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, led by Adam Driver's skillfully restrained performance, is a brazing social commentary culminating in a harsh, yet beautiful truth.

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Generally speaking, if you introduce a gun in the first act, it has to go off in the third. Early on in “Paterson,” the title character is warned by a carful of New Jersey bros that his expensive English bulldog may be stolen if he keeps tying it outside the local bar. Spoiler alert: The bulldog never goes off.

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Jim Jarmusch’s film stars Adam Driver as a bus driver and Pablo Larraín’s movie stars Luis Gnecco as Pablo Neruda.

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The latest from Jim Jarmusch stars Adam Driver as a New Jersey bus driver with a serious poetry habit.

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In Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson,' Adam Driver plays a New Jersey bus driver who is secretly a poet. But the movie is prose more than it is Jarmusch poetry.

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