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Reviews

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  The French Dispatch 2021

  

  bwolo ★★★★½

  My favorite of his in quite some time. For all that people love to notice his visual tics, this is Wes's most language-centered film. He let his literary influences come…

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  Citizen Kane 1941

  

  Alyssa Heflin ★★★★★

  This was a particularly bad case of someone being Citizen Kane.

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  Dune 2021

  

  Alyssa Heflin

  Pretty bad all told, incredibly turgid and monotonous, lacking in imagination, but those first three minutes are really incredible. Was honestly hoping to like this one but me and Denis…

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  There Was a Crooked Man... 1970

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★

  A farcical prison western that plays like Mankwieckz had watched a bunch of Italian westerns and decide to spin them for his own interests. Overlong, low on action and a…

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  Yojimbo 1961

  

  JJ

  So sick. You can tell they actually filmed this in Kurosawa mode instead of post-converting it.

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  Volver 2006

  

  ShawnGlinis ★★★★½ 2

  i've heard Almodovar talk about storytelling as something he learned from listening to his mother and fellow village women gossip and gab throughout the day. as a result, his films…

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  The History of the Seattle Mariners 2020

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★★ 3

  I never clicked with Moneyball when I saw it, not because I thought it was a poorly made film (if anything I was impressed that a boardroom, coach's office baseball…

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  Spawn of the North 1938

  

  Jaime Christley ★★★½

  I guess this was in production for a couple of years but it doesn't show except it kind of feels like it might have gone in the direction of being…