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  Review by karsten ★★★★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 josh lewis ★★★★ 4

  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 tranquility 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 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 ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 10

  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…

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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 ★★★★ 3

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

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  Review by yarb ★★★★½ 15

  The boulder that comes out of nowhere to land in Gal's beloved pool is such an obvious portent/metaphor for the arrival of Don Logan that it's almost comical, and you can say the same for many of Glazer's bold artistic choices, like the pink opening titles, the del Toro-esque dream sequences with Gal confronting Satan, or the countless inventive needle-drops. The film's overwhelming élan is dumbfounding; funny like a magic trick is funny, provoking the breathless laughter of a baby playing peekaboo.

  Most reviews understandably focus on Ben Kingsley's iconic turn as Logan — the psycho's psycho — but on this watch I was just as impressed with Ray Winstone's stew of world-weariness, guilt and paranoia, all bubbling under a…

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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★★★ 9

  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 fran hoepfner ★★★★★ 4

  DIVINE

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  Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★★ 8

  Talking about a movie that I only became aware of because of this platform. I was intrigued by people's rave reviews of this movie, but not as much as the poster, which at first I thought Ray Winstone had on a tight red latex suit, but it's just a heavy tan.

  In regards to the movie, this was surprisingly fun. Jonathan always came across as a kind of avant-garde director after watching his last two films; nothing to suggest he would write a quirky crime thriller. In addition to the camera work, the cinematography, and some of the performances were reminiscent of early Guy Ritchie. It’s perhaps in line with what Soderbergh would accomplish with "Ocean's Eleven" a year later.…