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  Mikey and Nicky 1976

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Nov 2023

  I'm not sure I enjoyed this more than "The Heartbreak Kid", which blew me away when I watched it a few years ago, but this film still lived up to my expectations. It chronicles a dying friendship on its last legs at the worst possible time for one of the two involved in it. Though Nicky initially comes off as panicked and not thinking straight due to his fear of being killed, the more you learn of his behavior (that…

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  The Piano Teacher 2001

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2023

  While I've enjoyed most of what I've seen from Haneke so far, my appreciation of his films mainly boils down to enjoying them more on a technical level rather than an emotional level (Cache and The White Ribbon have their moments though), so I was definitely not expecting this film to resonate with me as much as it did.

  My initial takeaway was how well Huppert communicates the sexual repression and loneliness of her character. Erika's mother is domineering and…

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  Death Proof 2007

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 May 2023 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  While this is often considered to be Tarantino's worst film (even Tarantino himself admitted it's his weakest film), I've always had a strong appreciation for it. Most negative reviews I've come across praise the climaxes to both halves, Kurt Russell's performance, and the grainy look of the film, but criticize the film for being too talky and too slow. I don't think these criticisms are entirely sound though and don't matter a whole lot in the grand scheme of what…

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  Sawdust and Tinsel 1953

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2023 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Bergman depicts human suffering better than just about every director I'm familiar with and this is yet another reminder of his talents. I've seen the opening vignette argued as being the best part of the film by some reviewers and, though I wouldn't quite agree inasmuch to the extent I've seen some people argue this point, it's certainly a terrific sequence. In spite of the human suffering it depicts, Bergman also interjects humor into every frame of the opening, given…

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