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Reviews

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  Two Orphan Vampires 1997

  

  Andrew Pope ★★★

  A howl of magic in the dark. Overcomes its flaws with sheer belief in its poetic vision.

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Jim

  Spaghetti Western of the “they double-crossed him, tortured him, shot him in the legs and rendered him cripple, left him for dead with a noose around his neck, then raped,…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Ralf ★★★½

  A slow-burn revenge western that starts with a cleverly hush-hush bank heist and the subsequent falling out of the gang who aren't content with their leader's significant share of the…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Dean ★★★★ 2

  One of the darkest Italian westerns ever made. It’s up there with The Great Silence & Cemetery Without Crosses in terms of bleakness.

  Robert Woods is great as Jack Murphy. He…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Krautsalat ★★★★

  Most Italian westerns are about cynical anti-heroes driven by greed or revenge, this picture takes that idea even further: The protagonist is pretty much a villain, a conniving bank robber…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Dennis Vehlen ★★★★

  'Black Jack' (though I prefere the more exploitive German title 'On Your Knees Django, and Lick my Boots') is a mean spaghetti western that gets pretty much everything right.
  The…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  Speeg ★★★

  It’s been a revenge movie type of week 
  Don’t expect much of a fair game of blackjack (actually poker in the film) with these players. Clever bank heist in the…

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  Black Jack 1968

  

  sakana1 ★★★½

  Major spoilers ahead.

  Black Jack is an ugly, nasty slice of nihilism, the darkness of which rivals that of any other film in the spaghetti western genre. Opening with a…