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Reviews

• Claudine

  Claudine 1974

  

  Adam Katzman ★★★★

  A smart and empathetic portrait of welfare that avoids criticizing assistance in itself, instead focusing on the double bind of white stereotypes about black recipients and the dehumanizing regulations imposed…

• Walking and Talking

  Walking and Talking 1996

  

  Graham L. Carter ★★★

  Mostly felt characterizations were stodgy, and that it had too many loose threads to tie up by the end that didn’t matter anymore—but... there were a few true to life…

• Claudine

  Claudine 1974

  

  Graham L. Carter ★★★★

  add a little sugar, honeysuckle and
  a great big expression of happiness

• The Birds

  The Birds 1963

  

  Etan Weisfogel ★★★★★

  Might discuss this film a little more in my entry on Notorious (which I also rewatched as part of MoMA's Hitchcock/Truffaut series) but just wanted to note quickly how this…

• My Own Private Idaho

  My Own Private Idaho 1991

  

  Brian Formo ★★★★★

  My Own Private Idaho involves a lot of posing: a trust-fund kid (Keanu Reeves) posing as a bohemian with young male street prostitutes; and "straight" boys "posing" as gay, confusing…