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The first trailer of "A Star Is Born" is out and features Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's "A Star Is Born", which is expected to be one of the biggest outings this weekend and a potential favorite for the season's rewards, is garnering mostly positive reviews from critics. .

Congratulatory praise, and even some four – star ratings, hailed the debut of his director.

Brian Truitt of USA TODAY has called the film "a multi-faceted dynamic showcase for Gaga and Cooper", giving it four stars. They form "an electrifying duet in one of the best movies of 2018 and the best musical since 2002," Chicago "."

Jackson (Bradley Cooper) and Ally (Lady Gaga) find musical magic in the new movie "A star is born". (Photo: NEAL PRESTON)

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Owen Gleiberman of Variety has called the remake a "transcendent Hollywood movie", which is "a total emotional shock, but it's also a movie that suggests, at every step, the complicated removal of the story told. ".

Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal said the film was "almost miraculously correct in every respect" and that "Cooper's and Gaga's lovers … are played to dramatic and musical perfection".

Manohla Dargis, writer of the New York Times, recommended bringing tissue to "gorgeous broken heart," writes the film, "draws tears of romance and strong emotions from an unwavering belief in the cinema to old and great feeling ".

Dargis applauds Gaga in his role as Ally. "This unmasking of Lady Gaga also gives Ally an authentic look, a quality that the film's champions represent and which constitutes a kind of thematic first principle," wrote Dargis.

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New Yorker's Anthony Lane called the film "a pure movie buff night: it gives you a punch, then you wake up on Sunday morning without a scratch".

Lane also praised Gaga's performance. "What's left of this last effort is Lady Gaga," he wrote. "Only among pop royalty, she could walk in the street without being recognized, such is her confidence in the costumes and characters preserved."

Ally (Lady Gaga) and Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) impress audiences in "A Star Is Born". (Photo: CLOS ENOS)

Scott Mendelson, Forbes' collaborator, said the film could "stand on its own two feet, both as a commendable remake and as entertainment for viewers with no prior knowledge or interest in the film. # 39; s history. " He said that although the first hour of the film is "damn close to perfection", the second half "feels rushed as if two acts were crushed in one hour".

And Alissa Wilkinson of Vox agreed that the first hour of the movie "might be" perfect, writing that the film "succeeds more or less" when it "tries to exploit all its cinematic possibilities to burst your heart".

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