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Reviews

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  Scream for Help 1984

  

  David Wilentz ★★★★

  Nancy Drew + Blue Velvet + The Candy Snatchers + Home Alone. Michael Winner made some messed up movies and this may be one of his best and most twisted.

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  Stella Dallas 1937

  

  Alex Engquist ★★★★½

  Barbara Stanwyck seems incapable of hitting a false note in this film, just total emotional authenticity in every beat, all the more impressive for being in service of a character…

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  The Crowd 1928

  

  Alex Engquist ★★★★★

  Even its sweetest moments are tinged with irony, even its ostensibly happy ending is inescapably bittersweet. Eleanor Boardman's performance is just devastating. And Vidor's craft throughout is a marvel of…

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  

  Luke Gorham ★★½

  Sweet and playful enough that you can mostly tune out the essential stupidity of it all during its overlong runtime. But tough to much care about after credits roll. Sound…

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  Thief 1981

  

  K. Austin Collins

  "I can see my money is still in your pocket, which is from the yield of my labor. (...) You're making profits from my work. My risk. My sweat. —…

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  The Princess Bride 1987

  

  josh lewis ★★★ 2

  idk undeniably enjoyable as a series of genre pastiche setpieces trying to revive children's fables and errol flynn swashbucklers that have been forgotten by the modern world (all the sets…

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  The Naked Spur 1953

  

  Dan Hassler-Forest ★★★★★

  Last of the Mann/Stewart westerns to cross off my list, and my favorite one yet!

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  

  Clayton Dillard ★ 2

  Now the highest grossing A24 movie ever, this is an embarrassing goofball spectacle that undermines any of its remote pleasures (perhaps its fight choreography?) with a pastiche-oriented sense of humor…