How is this any different than listening to the "All-In" podcast? I don’t care if that’s "the point," you try and do it for 110 minutes without putting a screwdriver through your ear.
2000
I feel such ambivalence about this movie. On one hand, it makes me so sad that this is what heterosexual women were (and are) working with.
This movie, like Singles (1992), is grappling with how to tell honest stories about people exsistentially struggling with their new freedom to find a partner in an age when promiscuity and marriage are the most at the individual's imperative they have ever been. Suddenly, there are so many questions that open up beyond "is…
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1974
Liked Watched by cooltrainerxo
Enjoyed this movie and thought that maybe I had nothing to say about it but it turns out I do, just a couple things I'm not seeing reflected in the other reviews.
A few people point out that the dynamic between Gennarino and Raffaela shows how capitalist relations are insidious in that they are so quickly and easily recreated even by those who reject capitalism in theory.
What I haven't seen is the idea that some of the more transgressive…
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2025
Lovers Rock by way of From Dusk Till Dawn? Yes, please, and twice on Sundays.
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2025
Liked Watched by Evelyn Dee
“You robbed a bank and a train, but you ain’t gonna steal this pussy for one night?”
SMOKE AND STACK’S LOT
The past is never too far behind. We can go to a club or communion or a concert or a clan but it’s still going to catch up. Present’s a prison, so why not enjoy it?
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2025
As "art horror" has become rapidly homogenized into respective Blumhouse and A24 house styles wrapped around bluntly stated themes, Ryan Coogler re-asserts himself as possibly the best blockbuster maker of his generation with this gorgeous, deftly plotted, and well-acted vampire film that adds a new complicating wrinkle to its subtext every time you think it's about to nail down a metaphor for its bloodsuckers. As earthy and grimy as Near Dark with a shot of anguished longing under its erotic tension and some surprising synchronicity with Jordan Peele's Us, I think this will only reward subsequent viewings.
Full review: www.slantmagazine.com/film/sinners-review-michael-b-jordan-ryan-coogler/
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2025
Tried to discard the rating but couldn't figure out how. I regretted it immediately as I put it in, but I don't know what to give it.
ETA: Oh hell, I thought I deleted this review. Anyway, we're here now! A largely masterful implementation of what some will find a morally abhorrent fixed lens, WARFARE is fascinating for its cliché-defying rhythms and story and its immersive reality, underdone only by some overreliance on subjective sound in the middle. I can…
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2025
Opens with the “Call On Me” music video and ends like Taste of Cherry, so far and away Alex Garland’s most conceptually interesting movie.
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2015
Liked 13
At four hours and thirty-nine minutes in, just past the halfway mark, we find ourselves in the middle of the lunch break.
The serene visual drone of focused skilled workers piecing together perfectly machined parts - fitted, screwed, mallet-ed, welded, nailed and pressed into components - has given way to the laughter of laborers taking a load off in a factory cafeteria.
The casual laughter is like a burst of light after the durational march that came before. A worker,…
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2025
One thing all movies can agree on is if it is set in Seattle they won't even try to make it look like it takes place anywhere in or near Seattle, save for some stock helicopter shots of the Space Needle. This one goes as far as constructing an airport facade with logos that couldn't look less like the actual SeaTac airport.
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2025
Despite a game Pattinson, any commentary on identity or the ethics of cloning are lost in a mess of broad, sometimes funny, jabs at colonialism and MAGAesque cults. Made me want to reread the CALVIN & HOBBES storyline where Calvin clones himself. A much more succinct and vastly more hilarious satire on the same subject.
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