9.5 if I could, but Joaquin Phoenix easily gets a 10

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2019)

Didn't watch a single preview before seeing it, and I think that made the experience a bit better for me personally as I really had no idea which way the story was going, and with this particular movie that might've been the best scenario because I felt movie took me more along for a ride of the unexpected rather than the traditional and predictable. With prior knowledge of the movie (which probably most people have before their first viewings, especially nowadays) I might have had a much different experience and not have liked it nearly as much. I have a hard time giving anything a 10 or a 0, but if I could I'd give it a 9.5, and since it's clearly getting it's well deserved respect I don't really feel that I need to help slightly boost the consensus rating for this terrific movie that will go down as one of the greatest ever as it's likely to stay right under a 9.0 which would put it higher than almost any other movie rated here.