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  Review by Karst ★★★★½

  barry before barry

  
  (but weirder and darker and sillier)

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★★½ 8

  Oh, bloody hell. Fockin' lunacy. Fockin' sexy.

  Angry blokes swearin'.

  cursin'

  yellin'

  boilin'

  roastin'

  swelterin'

  Some crazy cunt in a stupid bunny suit, some in stupid man suits. Oh, bloody hell. Ghandi swears like a God. Ohhhh. Ridiculous. Tremendous. Fantastic. Fan-dabby-dozy ---- tastic.

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★½

  This movie taught me that you can order calamari for dinner. It’s not just an appetizer

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  Review by Vinny Simms ★★★★ 4

  a crime thriller where the characters commit the worst crime of all: being british

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 6

  Retirement as an act of simply caging the animal. A British gangster/heist film plot with all the ultra-violence, obscene "cunts" and unhinged British actors that's been formally fractured and made into something uniquely strange and sensual and disturbing. It's obviously operating at a much more extreme, vulgar register than his particular brand of idiosyncratic tranquillity but imo this is closer to Takeshi Kitano's abstracted, expressive thinking on this genre (that this lifestyle is an extremely suffocating/primal example of work vs. leisure leading to bizarre contradictions and situations) than it is, say, Guy Ritchie's.

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  Review by Sam ★★★★½ 1

  "Shut up, cunt. You louse. You got some fuckin' neck ain't you. Retired? Fuck off, you're revolting. Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a fucking suitcase out of you. Holdall. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like fucking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk? What you think this is the Wheel of Fortune? You think you can make your dough and fuck off? Leave the table? Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like…

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 10

  This movie is about Ken and Lisa Vanderpump.

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  Review by ♦️•Lily•💋 ★★★★½ 1

  Sexy Beast’s symbolic boulder walked so Parasite’s metaphorical ornamental rock could run 

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  Review by Bruno ★★★★½ 18

  After a spellbinding experience with Under the Skin, I was anxious to see Jonathan Glazer’s other work and I can safely say that Sexy Beast is definitely another incredible film of his resume. The dark humor keeps you entertained throughout the entire movie but there’s also a very interesting conflict lived by Ray Winstone’s character. The actor gives one his best performances and Ben Kingsley is absolutely insane on screen. He truly shines in this unconventional role, showing how versatile he can be. His presence was always unsettling and intimidating to watch. The other segment with Ian McShane was also engaging and his interactions with Winstone were quite memorable. Jonathan Glazer adds some surreal imagery and a strangely poetic quality to the dialogues, showing glimpses of what would come later in his career with Under the Skin. He is already becoming of my favorite directors and I can hardly wait to watch Birth.

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  Review by anto

  There was sexual tension between Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone, I can tell you that.

  Jokes aside, great debut for Jonathan Glazer and maybe this is Ben Kingsley's best role.

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  Review by COBRARocky ★★★★★

  U fucking wot m8?

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 13

  Just when I thought I'd seen it all (just kidding, obviously I haven't, I haven't even seen The Godfather Part II, it's a rhetorical device, try to keep up), Jonathan Glazer comes out with one of the most creative crime films of the new millennium. I went into Sexy Beast knowing nothing about it except that I absolutely loved Glazer's Under the Skin, and it put me so far on the edge of my seat wondering where it was going to go that I recommend anyone with any interest in gangster movies to check it out before reading anything else.

  There's no big central twist or anything like that, it's just so well executed and such a slightly shifted portrayal…