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Reviews

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  Alligator 2: The Mutation 1991

  

  Ian West ★★½ 5

  Early 90’s late night cable slop with a heap of genre regulars that goes down easy. It’s a fucking killer gator movie and has Richard Lynch in it… sometimes that’s…

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  Sweet Charity 1969

  

  BRAT ★★★★ 1

  three simple ingredients every movie-musical should have:
  1. overture
  2. intermission
  3. elaborate dance numbers ghost-choreographed by gwen verdon that consist of pure, flashy spectacle; i don’t require one iota…

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  Nights of Cabiria 1957

  

  SilentDawn ★★★★

  74

  One of my major Fellini blindspots crossed off the list. Giulietta Masina gives the performance of a lifetime in Nights of Cabiria, a film which feels like a tipping…

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  Nights of Cabiria 1957

  

  ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 5

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

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  Nights of Cabiria 1957

  

  Paul Elliott ★★★★★

  Nights of Cabiria is a story which elicits sincere sympathy for its central character. It features a powerhouse central performance from Giulietta Masina as streetwalker Cabiria Ceccarelli, who fruitlessly wanders…

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  Official Competition 2021

  

  theriverjordan ★★★½ 22

  The point between method acting and performance art is the axis of satire in “Official Competition.” 

  After a whirlwind film festival tour of showings, “Competition,” with a scene depicting Penélope…

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  Official Competition 2021

  

  Frances Meh ★★★★★

  Yes, yes, cello-wrap me head to toe Penelope, that’s right, bind me helpless to my worst frenemy, oh yes, make us watch Penelope, yes, watch while you violently destroy the tokens…

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  Good Manners 2017

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★

  A terrific argument against having children. Or a good argument for having children and never ever feeding them meat.