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Reviews

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  The Power of the Dog 2021

  

  Cinema Language ★★½ 1

  Jane Campion’s western epos dazzles with technique and technical excellence, yet doesn’t do much to differentiate itself or innovate - eventually making this film fall short of the “she’s back”…

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  Samurai Rebellion 1967

  

  Stephen Gillespie ★★★★★ 7

  Originally posted on my blog.

  To paraphrase film critic Mark Kermode, in Samurai Rebellion, there is a lot of Samurai before the Rebellion. Though the (frankly rather bad) current poster…

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  Booksmart 2019

  

  Beth Cook ★★★★★

  I love it so much, I’ve seen it before but I love everything about it and I was a fool to believe it was anything less than a 5 star…

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  Tokyo Tribe 2014

  

  YI JIAN ★★★★½ 11

  Sono. Sono Sono Sono. What a revelation, this master. His films contain a level of insanity that transcends time and space, posessing an energy so large it disrupts the balance…

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  Fat Girl 2001

  

  Rembrandt Q Pumpernickel ★★★★★ 16

  I don't want to mislead anyone who hasn't seen this film as to what it's like. It is a caustic and brutal film that assaults preconceptions of love and seduction…

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  Morvern Callar 2002

  

  Rembrandt Q Pumpernickel ★★★★★ 6

  I'm not sure what I can say here that isn't stunningly obvious. Samantha Morton is incredible as Morvern. Lynne Ramsay's eye for composition and ear for audio gives us a…

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  Village of the Damned 1960

  

  Luke MacKenzie ★★★★

  Brilliant, what a classic science fiction horror film. The atmosphere in the film was fantastic, it was really creepy at times and also really tense.

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  The Wind Rises 2013

  

  Claire Shaffer ★★★½ 3

  Now, this. This is how you do a World War II movie. With complexity and originality and all the great qualities you'd expect from any other great movie!

  This film…