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  Review by eely ★★★★ 1

  imagine having a secret pen pal and them turning out to be jimmy stewart i would Die on the spot

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  Review by Jonathan White ★★★★★ 103

  I met my wife, Lise, through correspondence. Over 100 pages of e.mails through the entire month of August, 1999, before we finally met up on August 31st.

  After our first perfunctory exchanges about who we were and what we liked, .. me: bands, biking, mixtapes and movies … Lise: bookcases, throw pillows, dogs and cats, and, amongst a list much longer than mine … ‘talking about movies’. Bingo.

  Our next set of letters was all about the movies.

  My top 10:
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Doctor Zhivago
  Dr. Strangelove
  The Graduate
  Brazil
  The Deer Hunter
  Blood Simple
  Raising Arisona
  Smash Palace
  The Great Santini
  One From the Heart
  Bonus pick – Joe Versus the Volcano

  Lise’s Top 10:

  The Vanishing…

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  Review by Sara Clements ★★★★★ 3

  “How much is that belt in the window, the one that says $2.95?”

  “$2.95......”

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★

  Wait this movie is set in BUDAPEST? Jimmy Stewart's character is HUNGARIAN???

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  Review by eely ★★★★

  TAKE ME OUT OF MY ENVELOPE AND KISS ME 😭

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  Review by Jake Cole ★★★★★

  So perfectly constructed it can be easy to initially overlook its feeling of spontaneity and human interaction. Even a suicide attempt, framed indirectly by the pop of a light bulb, plays less as black comedy than an impossibly optimistic show of human empathy and interdependence. That its revelation of lovers' identities to each other occurs after all the bright lights have been turned off around them seems so fitting for a film that subtly inverts everything you expect while producing a paragon of generic entertainment.

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★½

  wanted to punch pepi in the face

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  Review by fatima ★★★★½ 1

  the way james stewart is always at least 5 feet taller than everyone else is sending me

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  throwing a guy into a stack of music boxes is such a good gag

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  Review by Lise ★★★★★ 14

  I went into screenwriter mode about 30 minutes into the film. I could predict where it was going and how it was going to get there. I was enjoying it, but I knew where it was headed.

  Ha!
  HA! I said.

  I've never been so happy to be so wrong, and JHC was I proved wrong. Every friggin' 10 minutes Lubitsch and the screenwriter and the playwright were giving me the middle finger salute and I was loving it. The writing would come at me sideways, I would adjust my expectations and then get hit from the other side 10 minutes later. On and on it went, and I was lapping it up laughing out loud with a smile wider…

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  Review by Vanina ★★★★ 7

  They don't make 'em like Jimmy Stewart anymore, do they?

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  Review by Rida ★★★★★ 8

  Jimmy Stewart is perfect.