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  Review by eely 🎄 ★★★½ 3

  my left brain: this makes no sense
  my right brain: lauren bacall is so beautiful

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★★★★

  Great movie for those of us who like to use pen and paper to keep track of what's happening.

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  Review by Timcop ★★★★½ 4

  also goes by its subtitle: "Or Los Angeles is populated by scores of ridiculously beautiful women in everyday jobs like librarians, rare booksellers, cab drivers, coat-check girls, and cigarette girls that ALL want to fuck the shit out of Humphrey Bogart for some reason."

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  Review by Mr. DuLac ★★★★★ 12

  I collect blondes and bottles too.
  -Philip Marlowe

  The second film to feature Raymond Chandler's hard boiled detective Philip Marlowe in less then two years, but usually the one that's remembered as Marlowe's earliest incarnation. The first film, Murder, My Sweet, is actually a very good film, but director Edward Dmytryk and star Dick Powell are simply no match for Big Sleep's Howard Hawks and Humphrey Bogart.

  Hawks and his screenwriters crafted a film where the dialogue is almost a bigger star then Bogart himself. The give and take between Bogey and everyone in the film is so good that the film is considered a masterpiece even though the plot is so convoluted that if you analyze it too much…

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  Review by brendan o'hare ★★★★ 1

  At no point did I have even the slightest idea what was going on. 4 stars

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  Review by Peter Labuza ★★★★ 3

  "You're cute."

  As a diehard film noir guy, I’ve always had issue with The Big Sleep. Despite Chandler’s appreciation of Bogart’s performance, it hardly feels like his writing—Can you imagine Bogart’s Marlowe saying the following passage? “I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a game for knights.” That’s something Mitchum could nail – and does in Farewell, My Lovely. And if we’re gonna put this next to Tourneur or even Wilder, it’s visually bland in terms of its lighting (not necessarily a bad thing).

  So revisiting this one finally made me realize that this might…

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  Review by Anna Imhof 🌸 ★★★★½ 18

  If anyone ever sees anything sexier than Bogart and Bacall sitting in a bar, drinking, smoking and talking, please let me know and I will send you five dollars.

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  Review by sarah ★★½ 9

  omg...... i truly had no idea what the fuck was going on. every time they would name a character, it just flew right past my head. maybe i'm stupid as shit, but i really wish i loved this like everybody else.

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  Review by RetroHound ★★★★★ 12

  My 16-year-old wants to watch classic movies with me, so I picked this one out. When it was over he said it may be the best movie he's ever watched.

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  Review by comrade_yui 3

  hawks understands more than anyone that the plot of a film doesn't matter, so keep it nonsensical; that the emotions of a film do matter, so keep them volcanic

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★½

  87/100

  Fourth viewing, last seen 1997 (though that was the rediscovered "pre-release" cut, which was interesting to watch once but decidedly inferior to the familiar "racehorse" version). Just for fun, I made a concerted effort this time to follow the plot, pretending that it actually matters, and can now definitively say that doing so ain't remotely worth the mental energy required. Everything ultimately makes sense—even the notorious Chandler-flummoxing question "But who killed the chauffeur?" seems kinda silly, as it was pretty obviously Joe Brody—but there's no real sense of satisfaction in learning what happened, no grand Chinatown-style reckoning with societal forces too nefarious and untouchable to contemplate. It's just a handful of two-bit gangsters and hoodlums, some of whom affect…

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  Review by lauren ★★★★½ 2

  i’m like harry potter in that i never got to meet my parents, (humphrey bogart and lauren bacall) who loved each other very much