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  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    ★★★½

  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    ★★★½

  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    ★★★½

  • Frankenstein

    ★★★

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  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    ★★★½

    From all of the talk about MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN being faithful to the original novel (voiced since the time of its initial release), I can't help picturing some unfortunate student doing a book report on the movie, and then wondering why a failing grade was received. (One would hope that a similar infraction didn't occur with BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA.)

    Having read the novel multiple times, the differences are prodigious. Yes, there are some "scenes" and themes that are carried-over, but…

  • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    ★★★½

    From all of the talk about MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN being faithful to the original novel (voiced since the time of its initial release), I can't help picturing some unfortunate student doing a book report on the movie, and then wondering why a failing grade was received. (One would hope that a similar infraction didn't occur with BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA.)

    Having read the novel multiple times, the differences are prodigious. Yes, there are some "scenes" and themes that are carried-over, but…

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  • Dirty Harry

    Dirty Harry

    ★★★★★

    When I first saw DIRTY HARRY, I was several months underage.  The older brother of my best friend worked at the theater as an usher and agreed to “pass” me.  I was so excited to be seeing a film in the theater that had nudity and bloody violence.  (Hey, I led a sheltered life.)
        
    What I took away from it was a healthy respect for an incredibly intense story, the most believably real psychopathic villain I’ve still ever…

  • Blonde

    Blonde

    ★★½

    BLONDE is one of the most confounding films I’ve ever seen.  I didn’t like it … indeed, I kept checking the remaining running time more for this film than for any other movie I can remember … and yet, I couldn’t stop watching it.
       
    The construction almost seems like a series of “acting exercises” done in a senior performance class. Threads of a story appear, then drift away unresolved as a new scene is presented.  If this had…