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Reviews

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  Paris, 13th District 2021

  

  Julian Bonsu ★★★★½

  I very much appreciate Jacques Audiard's work. However, it generally takes me a while to get into his films. And once the credits roll, I'm usually ready to move on.…

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★½ 1

  Hamaguchi's literary cinema continues to pay dividends with rich character portraits filled with small observations, little ironies and a mastery of moral and existential ambiguity that seems to be missing…

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  

  matt lynch ★★★★

  2020s CHUNGKING EXPRESS

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  

  KYK ★★★★½ 1

  the thing i love most about hamaguchi’s movies is how there’s always an air of mystery surrounding them and from within that fog something reaches out and grabs you by…

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  You Are My Love 1957

  

  Elyes ★★★★ 1

  I lowkey think the consideration of Chahine as an auteur is much more interesting within the framework of these studio-helmed films from the earlier part of his career (and that's…

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  Memoria 2021

  

  Elyes ★★★★½

  The more I sit with it the more I feel like this may be an all-timer. Jotted down some brief thoughts on one scene in particular.

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  

  demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 55

  It’s hard to account for recency bias in saying something this definite, and surely someone will want to start a useless argument or hold resentment against the movie because they…

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  In the Palm of Your Hand 1951

  

  Elyes ★★★★

  Karin—through his attempted otherworldly and cosmopolitan persona—is tricking himself just as much as he is everyone else. This has all the fun classic noir tropes: doomed protagonist, love triangles, double…