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Reviews

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  Stolen Pleasure 1962

  

  EnLove ★★★★

  How good can a used car salesmans cock really be? Enough to drive three women doolally, according to this.

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  Night and the City 1950

  

  seb ★★★★

  "Born a hustler, you’ll die a hustler."

  An ugly, rough representation of the underground, filled with nothing but hatred and nihilism, very much fitting for a blacklisted director in exile.…

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  The Boxer from Shantung 1972

  

  8BeanSoup ★★★★

  Man, I don't think I've seen someone bleed so much since Reservoir Dogs (1992)!

  The story of The Boxer from Shantung is one we've seen before in Scarface (1983) and…

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  The Boxer from Shantung 1972

  

  threepenny ★★★★½

  The movie is over two hours, but I bet it clocks in at a crisp 90 minutes if you remove all the scenes of the gang bosses fiddle-fucking around with…

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  The Bad Sleep Well 1960

  

  Harry ★★★★½

  The Bad Sleep Well, Kurosawa’s take on corporate scandal and corruption, is much darker than I anticipated. The twisted cover ups and constant misfeasance is more akin to something we’d…

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  Castle in the Sky 1986

  

  sofy ★★★★

  I WANT TO LIVE IN A GHIBLI WORLD!!!

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  Four of the Apocalypse 1975

  

  c h r i s🫀 ★★★★ 2

  You are very vulgar, bud! 
  
  the good, the bad, the Fulci. 
  I once said in my Contraband review, “Fulci crime is almost as good as Fulci horror” and now I…

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  Dancing Girl 1957

  

  Raktim ☭ ★★★

  How can simple horizontal camera movements add so much impact to a movie? With Dancing Girl, Shimizu Hiroshi proves that his mastery over the cinematic form was faultlessly retained till…