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Journey to Italy 1954
Watched by Kenji Fujishima 03 May, 2013 This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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100 Girls 2000
Added by Brian Schmid Neil LaBute’s one great film, the incendiary and brilliant IN THE COMPANY OF MEN (1997), is a film about a pair of ignorant, mean-spirited upper-middle-class white misogynist men ranting their frustrations I all but despised for 98% of its runtime before its climactic revelation made me recontextualize the entire film up to that point, entirely for the better. Writer-director Michael Davis (SHOOT 'EM UP)’s 2000 college sex comedy 100 GIRLS has much the same content for its first 98%, but…
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Before Midnight 2013
Watched by davidehrlich 14 Mar, 2013 "The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much."
my expectations were probably too high. but this exceeded them, anyway.
my full review of the film can be found here:
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Stoker 2013
Watched by Kenji Fujishima 21 Feb, 2013 "Here we go again," you might be thinking, "yet ANOTHER dysfunctional family melodrama." And yet, Chan-wook Park, in his first English-language film, pushes the melodrama here to such brilliantly lurid heights that after a while, you're held not just by the psychological jigsaw-puzzle structure of Wentworth Miller's screenplay (and by the way, yes, it's THAT Wentworth Miller, from the TV series "Prison Break") but by Park's extraordinarily committed over-the-top direction, which manages to conjure up a hot-house Southern Gothic atmosphere…
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Beyond the Hills 2013
Watched by Keith Uhlich 20 Feb, 2013 A good way to hear God laugh:
Faith questioned
In an endless winter.Click here to read Time Out New York review.
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The Strange Little Cat 2013
Added by Andrew Grant Tati meets Bresson. A masterwork from a filmmaker still at school. The most "alive" piece of cinema I've seen in ages.
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Django Unchained 2012
Watched by Mike D'Angelo 25 Dec, 2012 5 66/100
Opening scene encapsulates the pleasure and the problem, serving as a fractal representation of the movie as a whole. A great deal of strained politesse; a sudden eruption of violence (fine); further politesse, now rendered overtly comic by the aftermath; then further violence that in an ordinary film would have been merely implied, the necessary action having concluded (less fine). Because Django is coded as an exploitation flick, QT has given himself license to do what he wants in…
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Les Misérables 2012
Watched by Calum Marsh 06 Dec, 2012 8 VALJEAN
One star more!
Another day, another bad movie.
This never-ending film's my destiny;
These men who can't seem to hold a tune
Will surely spell but certain doom.
One star more!MARIUS
You liked "Les Mis" until today.
How can you turn this off now that you have started?VALJEAN
One star more.MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll drink thoughts of this film away.
And yet right now, this film's JUST started!EPONINE
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The Imposter 2012
Watched by Mike D'Angelo 21 Nov, 2012 8 This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Flight 2012
Watched by Matt Prigge 02 Nov, 2012 2 Stupid, I know, but there was a stretch where I was convinced this wouldn't wind up with our alkie/druggy antihero in AA, reciting the Serenity Prayer and burning his former self. Perhaps it was the staid direction, which seemed too intelligent for that shit. In fact, I actually thought it would follow through in arguing that what saved the day was Denzel's substance abuse problem. No sane person with all their faculties would have been able to pull off what…
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Excalibur 1981
by Mike D'Angelo 27 Oct, 2012 49/100
"I shall build...a round table!" Plays like (bad) parody initially, though by the end it's clear that Nigel Terry's wide-eyed mugging was mostly just overcompensation for being some 20 years older than the teenage Arthur. Still, the improvement is from embarrassing to pedestrian; only in the very late going, when things turn unreservedly phantasmagorical, does Boorman manage to conjure the sort of grandiose mythmaking he clearly has in mind. Nor does he handle the epic time span terribly well—Arthur…
