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  Con Air 1997

  

  Willow Maclay

  Fucking rules. Just kicks a lot of ass in a way that American movies just do not anymore. Ripping guitar solos? Check. Cop cars blowing up by the dozen? Check.…

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  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015

  

  dean ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015

  

  aleph beth null ★★★½ 1

  grinned myself silly through almost all of this, which is everything i believed bond films would be like when i hadn't seen a single instalment.

  i'm genuinely overcome that illya's…

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  

  Natalie ★★★★½

  De Palma going absolutely nuts with his shot and sequence ideas in the name of a near-bottle-film chamber piece neo-noir tackling the anxieties and moral erosion of Zionist militarization, all…

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  

  HELLOBOOZE ★★★★½

  De Palma going wild even by De Palma’s standards, he’s playing RASHOMON in the gaudiest environment on earth with a game cast and a huge budget, of course I love…

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  Snake Eyes 1998

  

  Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★★

  “...like he was gonna bullshit me to death!”

  Sui generis sorta detective flick, not a whodunnit, hardly a howdunnit, certainly not a howcatchem. Goofy Rashomon riffing grafted on to cartoonish…

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  The Triplets of Belleville 2003

  

  Esther Warren

  I remember this film looking this beautiful and sounding so lovely, I don't remember it being so fucking mean. Chomet's skill at caricature turns septic when he's being asked to…

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  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007

  

  Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★½ 1

  Sorta like a James Gray movie, in the sense that it’s a fantastically idiosyncratic take on well-treaded ground that’s also tinted hella yellow. For a revisionist western, I’m not sure…