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  Nope 2022

  

  BrandonHabes ★★★ 8

  Muybridge wanted to prove that his horses could get fully-airborne while galloping at full speed, the illusion which would capture an “impossible shot” by turning his equestrian animals into flying…

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  On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

  

  Sophie Farrell ★★★★½ 1

  This review may contain spoilers!

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service is an exceptional entry within the James Bond series. It maintains the same tone and sense of excitement of the…

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  The Big City 1963

  

  Arden Mae ★★★★★

  an instant classic, at least to my mind. this film is compelling and compassionate, presenting overlapping portraits of a family that refuses to be defined by their best or worst…

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  Nope 2022

  

  Silas ★★★★★

  That was one funky monkey

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  Moonlight 2016

  

  Ayush Das Adhikary ★★★★★ 34

  I. Little

  "What's a faggot?"

  Running from sticks and stones, hiding in a ramshackle shelter. Self-discovery by way of confusion, abuse, and loneliness. No father and a neglectful mother. Too…

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  

  Samcrom ★★★★½

  Those elegant, sleek, supersonic, limit-lacerating, adjective-hungry machines— zipping through the air and arrogantly jutting against the laws of physics. Wingtips like blades, slicing the honeyed veneer of sunset. Engines an…

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  Irreversible 2002

  

  Samcrom ★★★★

  Brutal. Dizzying, disorientating, shocking, sickening, unsettling, revolting, repulsive, repugnant. Unbearable to watch. Irreversible.

  The irreversibility of damage.

  An upturning, un-making of time-- a journey for an idyll already destroyed...

  ...oh,…

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  Beau Travail 1999

  

  Camden ★★★★

  Denis creates a rhythmic cinematic language with her visual poetry using bodies, noises, and choreography to allow her inner artist to emerge. At the heart of every man is inner…