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  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953

  

  comrade_yui ★★★★★

  howard hawks is a first-rate artist; marilyn monroe and jane russell are beautifully fierce heartbreakers; technicolor is the pinnacle of american pop-art. it's really hard to overstate how visually clever…

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  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953

  

  Jesse Snoddon ★★★½

  "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"

  Hawks…

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  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953

  

  Aaron ★★★★½ 12

  “Don’t you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You might not marry a girl just because she’s pretty, but, my goodness, doesn’t it help?”…

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  Bāhubali: The Beginning 2015

  

  davidehrlich ★★★½ 18

  [disappears down a tollywood / bollywood k-hole forever, to everyone's delight]

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  RRR 2022

  

  Justin Decloux ★★★★★ 13

  RISE. ROAR. REVOLT.

  You watch RRR and wonder "Why is this film such a spine-tingling blast of excitement while most super-hero blockbusters hit audiences like tepid baths?"

  Maybe it's because…

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  What's Up, Doc? 1972

  

  Channing Pomeroy ★★★★ 3

  This fizzy screwball highball is made of equal parts Howard Hawks and Chuck Jones. “Daffy girl, square professor, everything works out all right," in Bogdonovich’s formulation.

  In Last Picture Show,…

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  What's Up, Doc? 1972

  

  SilentDawn ★★★★½

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  Acutely Screwball on the surface, but rummaging around in its mechanics is a loose New Hollywood virus overtaking and causing havoc, upending expectation through stark pessimism, impending doom, and…

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  The Matrix Resurrections 2021

  

  Alexei Toliopoulos ★★★★ 3

  The most audacious, fascinating and surprising sequel I think I have ever seen. But one would hope for and expect nothing less from a filmmaker who has always seemed to…