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Reviews

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  La Collectionneuse 1967

  

  comrade_yui ★★★

  rohmer's six moral tales are basically him inventing the type of people who go on twitter half a century before that website became a real thing

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  Close-Up 1990

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★★

  every cinephile has a crippling weakness for movies-about-movies, and kiarostami here makes one for the ages. one big heartache over a man's love of art, loves it because it allows…

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  Hard Eight 1996

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★★ 7

  my favorite PTA. the sound of leather creaking, metal clanging, glass shattering, early morning blur in neon swirl. no unpunished courtesy, no walk in a forest without a trace of…

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  The Aviator's Wife 1981

  

  comrade_yui ★★★

  why is it a requirement in every rohmer film for the main character to visit either the most beautiful vacation estate known to man, or a weirdly-decrepit liminal nightmare apartment

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  Year of the Gun 1991

  

  Kristof Szabó ★★½

  An almost fetishistic addiction to danger and capturing violence on images, political turmoil, a passive fuckup loser of a protagonist, an atmospheric Bill Conti score, prolonged tension exploding into bloody…

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  The Roundup 2022

  

  Pierce Conran ★★★★

  Even punchier and funnier than THE OUTLAWS, the cops & villains sequel THE ROUNDUP is a thunderous showcase for everything we love about Ma Dong-seok (Don Lee). Tight, grungy and choke-full…

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  The Roundup 2022

  

  James Marsh ★★★★

  “The beast cop is back” screams the advertising for Lee Sang-yong’s The Roundup, the red-blooded, ultra-violent and riotously entertaining follow-up to 2017’s The Outlaws. Ma Dong-seok, aka Don Lee, reprises…

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  The Roundup 2022

  

  Harris Dang ★★★★

  THE ROUNDUP is a worthy successor to THE OUTLAWS as it inches further with its ambition thanks to punchy action scenes, genial humour, assured tonal shifts and its infectious sense…