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Reviews

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  You Won't Be Alone 2022

  

  GordoFlower ★★★★

  Not to reduce this to just references, but it really does feel like The Witch meets Au hasard Balthazar if directed by Terrence Malick. Goran Stolevski's impressive feature film debut…

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  Conan the Barbarian 1982

  

  David James ★★★★ 20

  "Conan, what is best in life?
  "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
  [raucous applause]

  I'm not in the right…

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  The Batman 2022

  

  David James ★★★★ 22

  Arkham City + Night Moves + Body Double + (Se7en + Zodiac + Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) + one pinch of Equilibrium = The Batman

  I watched The Batman…

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  Femme Fatale 2002

  

  David James ★★★★ 40

  "I'm a bad girl, Nicholas. Real bad. Rotten to the heart. Last scrape I was in, I f***ed up a lot of people, bad people - people like me. People…

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  X 2022

  

  David James ★★★½ 19

  X is a truly fun, richly textured, aesthetically cohesive backwoods slasher that manages to organically weave in genuine themes about repression, religion, and America's dumb dichotic culture where we simultaneously…

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  Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004

  

  David James ★★★★★ 16

  [Kill Bill: Vol. 1 review here]

  The following intro paragraph appears on both reviews because it really nails why I love this two part masterpiece, but specifics about Vol. 2…

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  Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003

  

  David James ★★★★★ 34

  [Kill Bill: Vol. 2 review here]

  The following intro paragraph appears on both reviews because it really nails why I love this two part masterpiece, but specifics about Vol. 1…

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  The Northman 2022

  

  David James ★★★★ 17

  Purely by coincidence, I watched Conan the Barbarian and The Northman back to back over two nights, and it was really fun comparing the two vastly different movies based on…