Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Jaws 1975

  

  Zachary Weiss ★★★★★

  I’m gonna need a bigger bowl of popcorn!

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  Orphan 2009

  

  Kyle Turner ★★★★

  As she tears a family apart and wreaks havoc wherever her tiny body takes her, there’s a strange satisfaction and hypnotic edge to watching a “child” so intelligent they can…

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  Holocaust 1978

  

  tmroj ★★★★

  Landmark five-part miniseries that put the Holocaust in American living rooms in a way that no television series had before, the film plays slightly more as a curio watching decades…

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  Polar Bear 2022

  

  tmroj ★★★½

  Gorgeous photography and well-executed narration from Catherine Keener. This isn't going to be a David Attenborough documentary, obviously, but it still feels right. I don't love when they anthropomorphize actual…

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  The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! 1966

  

  Ronaldo ★★★

  This movie was a revelation, it showed me that Alan Arkin used to be hot. I’d seen him in Wait Until Dark before but he did not have a mustache…

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  The Killing 1956

  

  Ben Empey ★★★★½

  A brilliant metaphor for being a young filmmaker trying to methodically control every aspect of your first production and failing miserably.

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  The Killing 1956

  

  Peter Charney ★★★★

  YASS PLOT STRUCTURE

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  A Prairie Home Companion 2006

  

  Matt Erspamer ★★★★½ 2

  “why are you crying?”
  “well it’s the last show. I’m never gonna see these people again.”
  “you’ll see them again.” 

  overflowing with life and death. a personal favorite