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Reviews

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  The Third Man 1949

  

  Jon M. ★★★★½

  Every decision that Reed makes is in bad taste; the dutch angles are so academic and the direction so unsubtle that it completely undermines the psychological ambiguity the text works…

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  I Come with the Rain 2009

  

  Post1000Tension ★★★★★ 6

  [Note: Unfortunately I was not able to rewatch this film and extend this essay as I’d planned. My German Blu-Ray, one of the only official releases, isn’t compatible with the…

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  Tenebre 1982

  

  Jack Welch ★★★★½ 2

  My Halloween season crash course in Italian horror's greatest hits spilled over a bit into November with “Tenebrae,” Dario Argento’s return to straight giallo thrills after wading into supernatural waters…

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  Chimes at Midnight 1965

  

  Jack Welch ★★★★★ 4

  The great irritation of Chimes at Midnight is that it inevitably leads commentators to observe that Welles “created a new Shakespeare play” by centering (per Criterion) on the “comic supporting…

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  Jackass Forever 2022

  

  Max Coombes ★★★★½

  Scene by scene the most efficient Jackass, or at least the one most concerned with sustaining viewer pleasure. You can tell Knoxville et al. have spent the last decade watching…

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  The Forgotten 1959

  

  Jon M.

  In the absence of anywhere else to write this, I'll put it here. I've been obsessed in the last three weeks with this painting of Christ and the woman of…

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  The Lords of Salem 2012

  

  Max Coombes ★★★★½ 9

  Zombie is concerned less with the evocation of place through its generic history than he is returning home and working through its estrangement. The Lords of Salem renders the town…

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  Shock 1977

  

  Max Coombes ★★★★ 2

  Casually antinatalist and resolutely antimarriage, Dora marries sailors and pilots, and her son Marco spies on them through the door. The child's Oedipal obsession and paternal resentment initially parallels that…