Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  The Actress 2021

  

  Dylan Polacek

  Pick your favorite Isabel mine is Jessica Chastain

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  Dual 2022

  

  Brandon Streussnig

  2022

  Still not entirely sure I’m in on Riley Stearns’ wavelength but what a blackly funny, often moving meditation on trying to live when everything’s telling you to end it.…

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  Norman Norman 2018

  

  Michael Sicinski ★★★½

  [7]

  A friend of mine suggested that Romvari's films are getting "bigger" (in the sense of gaining more international traction) as they get smaller in scope. It's true that the…

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  The Northman 2022

  

  Tim Brayton ★★★★½ 6

  Feels more like a follow-up to The Witch than The Lighthouse, backing off from the most extreme stylisation of Robert Eggers's second film but preserving the central idea from his…

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  Barfly 1987

  

  Mike D'Angelo ★★★★½ 1

  84/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  Foolishly dismissed this at the time as an overly romanticized self-portrait, and then somehow managed to further misremember it as grim and serious, so…

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  Swept Away 1974

  

  Johann Rucker ★★★★½

  It's the same old story. The left struggles on, the right butters up to the Vatican.

  Wertmüller's brand of hyper-specific Italo-tragicomedy is operating at full power in SWEPT AWAY. Even…

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  Mothering Sunday 2021

  

  Timothy Evans ★★★★½

  Vividly sorrowful post-WWI period film that's sensual and sexual instead of buttoned-up and chaste. Breathing and full of life instead of ornamental and under glass. Elemental and textured instead of…

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  The Batman 2022

  

  Keith Uhlich

  The film I imagine Ricky Fitts would grow up to make after the events of American Beauty. Gotham City certainly has the emo-depressive aura here of a discarded plastic bag…