Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

ebeeselaar I am not a big poetry fan, but this movie is really well portrayed. Adam Driver excellently gives us a view of who exactly this Paterson caracter is. The movie has this kind of groundhog vibe, without repeating scenes or actions.

adonis98-743-186503 A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details. Paterson is a pretty original film for sure and i will admit that but that doesn't mean it's a good film, Adam Driver seemed kinda bored, lost and tired threw out the film like he was forced to make this movie until 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started filming or something like that plus it's painfully slow that will almost make you sleep. It's a movie that as i said is original but sometimes you also need to have a good script and unfortunately it didn't..

justinlewry Paterson succeeds by making day to day life fascinating and engaging to watch. This entire movie rests on Adam Driver's shoulders, and through an excellent performance, he is able to bring an energy to an otherwise mundane character. This movie is so interesting to watch because it is so unlike anything I've seen before.

Raj Doctor 31 Dec 2017. If one looks back at 2017 - from top 10 grossing Hollywood movies 8 are super-heros, si-fi fantasy stuff. Amidst all that I saw a nonchalant film. "Paterson" (2016)Nothing actually happens in the movie. That is why it is a rare gem. It seems that the director Jim Jarmusch was carrying the idea of this film from last 20 years, and he was lucky it materialized.Though on the box office the movie is a disaster, it got critical acclaim on the approach and courage to venture into this stuff.The movie is about a bus driver named Paterson (Adam Driver - Star Wars fame), living in a small town of US called Paterson. He has a girl-friend Laura (extremely beautiful Golshifteh Farahani - Iranian) who is engaged in re-decorating the house interiors and also is ambitious with dreams of becoming a famous country singer and have her own pastry business. She has a dog Marvin which Paterson takes for a walk everyday evening when he goes to a bar for a drink.Paterson also has a passion for writing poetry - that slowly builds on him during the daily routine - which is quite regimental (understandably due to his timely job pressures as a bus driver)The movie is a reflection on the mundane life of a bus driver and the ups and down one encounters in daily life with different characters one interacts. The way Paterson is shown to take life as it comes, accepting everything that happens to him without much fuss is really admirable - especially when Laura's dog tears his only poetry book to shreds leaving him sad and solemn. In the end, an encounter with a Japanese tourist revives his passion to start re-writing poems.The movie is slow paced, so those of you who want, romance, action, comedy, si-fi, super-natural stuff are advised to be away. The poetry in itself is not great, but is inspiring to the sense that in mediocre life - one can be so fulfilled and at peace and happy as Paterson. The movie is a week's journey starts on a Monday and ends on on nonchalant note on another Monday.For some the direction and the proceeds of movie may seem uninspiring, but one needs to understand the mood and attempt to make something so out of the box and brave. Thanks Jim. That's why it leaves and impression.I would go with 7.5 out of 10