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Reviews

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  Paisan 1946

  

  NoFunAllowed ★★★★½

  Criterion Challenge 4/52

  Language is the local battleground.

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  The Color of Money 1986

  

  NoFunAllowed ★★★★ 1

  "Pride can make you a great player but never a great hustler"
  

  Long after Scorsese is gone, "innovative" directing will still basically mean catching up to him. So many echoes…

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  Asking For It 2021

  

  NoFunAllowed ½

  Another failure at a #metoo social thriller. Just a pile of empty style and conflated politics. Everybody is asleep at the wheel here, either because they're being directed that way…

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  Bad Boys 1995

  

  Autumn Faust ★★★ 2

  Genre elements thrown into chaos, the Mann-ian dictate delocalized from the plurality of an individual's makeup into a pluralized single film object. Not only is the editing impressionist, but the…

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  Crimes of Passion 1984

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★

  when cinephiles talk about modern mainstream movies not being horny/sexy enough anymore, this is exactly what they're nostalgic for. ken russell deconstructing post-60s american sexuality; dialogue consisting solely of puns,…

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  The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965

  

  Z. W. Lewis ★½ 1

  Nicholas Ray and George Stevens shared the responsibility of portraying the life of a young man gone too soon who would later become, in his death, a Messiah figure for…

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  After Last Season 2009

  

  NoFunAllowed ½

  What started as an effort to look for something worth excavating in outsider art and sticking it to tasteless squares like ralphthemoviemaker became an evening challenge in you narcolepsy you…

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  A Clockwork Orange 1971

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★ 2

  Far less ambiguous than I'd taken this to be beforehand, this time rather playing almost as empty provocation - and at worst, utterly nihilist. However, even with the perhaps unnecessarily…