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Recent reviews

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  Happy Hour 2015

  Watched 24 Sep 2023 2

  Enormous changes at the last minute. Great 32nd birthday movie.

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  House of Tolerance 2011

  Watched 17 Sep 2023

  Nick's comparison of the latest Bonello to Steve Erickson is something that I thought about a few times during House of Tolerance, if not least because Erickson's preoccupations can also seem stupid and juvenile; what transcends those apparent limitations has to do with prose style, yes, but principally a layering of narrative time, where multiple pasts and futures seem to take place atop each other. I'm not sure that Bonello has the same command of his mediun to fully realize…

Popular reviews

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  Zola 2020

  Watched 03 Jul 2021

  Riley Keough deserves either a Nobel Prize or jail

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  TÁR 2022

  Watched 15 Oct 2022 4

  The reputation that Todd Field has accrued in the last decade or so seems to me to be based mostly on hot air. Field acted in Eyes Wide Shut, made two well-received literary adaptations (which were Kubrick's stock-in-trade) and has been attached to a few more over the years that never came to fruition. The one that did more than anything to create an aura of genius around his name was the rumor that he was developing Blood Meridian with…