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Reviews

• BlacKkKlansman

  BlacKkKlansman 2018

  

  Biden Bro ★★ 1

  More of a Black Twitter clap back against the alt-right than any substantial commentary on the state of racial politics in America. Which is fine. Calling the racists out on…

• BlacKkKlansman

  BlacKkKlansman 2018

  

  Juan ★★½ 2

  I found this movie to be pandering and eye-rollingly in-your-face. The references to Trump felt like fan service in a Star Wars movie, and it really baffles me how poorly…

• The Shining

  The Shining 1980

  

  M.K. Rhodes ★★★★★ 4

  King's novel is a melodramatic sprawl of spook hokum and alkie angst, climaxing with angry evil topiary animals (oh the terror!); Kubrick's film is a nightmare meditation on the endless…

• Heat

  Heat 1995

  

  Melissa Tamminga ★★★★½

  You’d think I’d hate the hyper masculinity of the Mann-verse, but somehow I fall for it. Every time.  

  And finally (!) catching up with this was no different. 

  But can…

• Young Guns

  Young Guns 1988

  

  Scott W. Black ★★½ 11

  In the Old West I'm guessing that ammunition was a precious commodity. So why do the "young guns" and others waste so much of it by shooting into the air…