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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched by Corwyn 26 Dec 2021 2

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

  I'm not gonna forget you. Just like you're not gonna forget me.

  One of the most striking things about Licorice Pizza to me are the subtle and unexpected parallels with Paul Thomas Anderson's previous outing, Phantom Thread. At a glance, the two couldn't seem more different; while Phantom Thread is certainly underrated for its humor, this is unquestionably a much lighter and more carefree film, which can make its explorations of thornier subjects that much more disarming.

  Both films deftly…

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  Titane 2021

  ★★★★½ Rewatched by Corwyn 19 Dec 2021 3

  Two trucks having sex, two trucks having sex
  My muscles, my muscles involuntarily flex

  Vehicular fucking.

  Titane is a film which comes out of the gate swinging with a barbed-wire baseball bat, taking the New French Extremity influences of Julia Ducournau's previous masterwork Raw, and cranking the intensity up to eleven. Subversion is the name of the game here, and perhaps the boldest stroke is its subversion of just what constitutes subversive in the first place.

  Following a car accident…

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  The Recorder Exam 2011

  Added by Corwyn

  Just like House of Hummingbird, a wonderful slice-of-life drama packed with heart, humanity, and compassion for the struggles of its young protagonist.

  Hope Kim Bora comes out with another film soon.

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  Songs My Brothers Taught Me 2015

  ★★★½ Watched by Corwyn 15 Aug 2022

  Anything that runs wild got something bad in 'em. You want to leave some of that in there. 'Cause they need it to survive out here.

  Chloe Zhao's dramas look and feel like if Terrance Malick directed a documentary. It has that same beautiful, almost ethereal feel to it, and the way it flows, while also being grounded by a lived-in authenticity that makes you almost forget sometimes that you aren't actually watching a documentary.

  Pacing didn't always work for me, but still. Good movie.

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  Windfall 2022

  ★★★ Watched by Corwyn 18 Mar 2022 3

  Try being a rich white guy these days!

  When life gives you Plemons, make Plemonade.

  ➡️ 2022 Ranked

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  No Man of God 2021

  ★★★½ Watched by Corwyn 29 Aug 2021 1

  "Do you know why I did it?"

  "Because you wanted to."

  Francois Truffaut famously said that it's impossible to make an anti-war war movie, because the act of depicting it always inadvertently ends up glorifying it; that which is supposed to horrify, instead titillates. One begins to suspect that the same may be true of Ted Bundy films. And if the industry maintains its current trajectory, the latter sub-genre may soon become more numerous than the former.

  This movie doesn't…