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  Rotting in the Sun 2023

  ★★½ Watched 26 Sep 2023

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

  I watched this on MUBI, over two nights and with pause breaks every 10 minutes or so because I found it so enervating. It's way too long for what amounts to a morbid meta-joke, and I honestly could have passed the rest of my life in peace never knowing who Jordan Firstman was. There is something in Silva's willfully messy, immediate style and his volatile anti-chemistry with Firstman, and there are a few off-handedly funny satirical moments (mostly delivered by…

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  It Lives Inside 2023

  ★★★ Watched 24 Sep 2023

  Surprisingly solid PG-13 horror that mostly overcomes clumsy scripting and at times amateurish directing. Megan Suri and Neeru Bajwa are good and Dutta clearly has the most fun with the horror sequences. For me, worth it for the refreshingly old-school creature design and effects at the end.

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  The Long Goodbye 1973

  ★★★★ Added 9

  There is no surface on Earth that Elliott Gould can't use to light a match.

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  Grey Gardens 1975

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2015 5

  watching this now is like watching ghosts making a movie about ghosts trapped in a house haunted by ghosts

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