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Reviews

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  

  David Sims ★★★★

  real good real melancholy. always weak for an elegiac “am I losing my edge” movie from an aging master. viggo v tender

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  

  davidehrlich ★★★★

  Watching David Cronenberg’s beguiling new dream-noir — a twilight vision of tomorrow in which the next phase of human evolution is considered, at least by some privately self-conflicted bureaucrats, as…

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  

  Richard Chandler ★★★★★ 40

  Greetings from underneath a large rock—too much overtime, a host of physical maladies and a persistent feeling of general malaise have prevented me from being very active here for some…

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  Scanners 1981

  

  a. laurel lawrence

  REHABILITATION THROUGH ART

  great movie !

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  25th Hour 2002

  

  ∞ Ben(ch) ★★★★½

  A film of absences, of a past reduced to mere rubble and dust…the detritus of memory. Yes, there’s the Twin Towers acting as their own kind of motionless, master-metaphor—by then…

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  Men 2022

  

  davidehrlich ★★★½

  Are men OK? The fact that we live at a time when a horror movie can simply be called “Men” — a title as cheeky but unsarcastic as that of…

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  Detour 1945

  

  Joe Talbot 1

  Watching Tom Neal accidentally kill two people in a way that seems written to relieve him of any real wrongdoing feels silly at first. Like noirish bad luck approaching parody.…

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  My Neighbor Totoro 1988

  

  Adam Nayman ★★★★★ 12

  The thing about Totoro - the creature, I mean - is that he’s not particularly ingratiating; he’s lazy and inscrutable and yet he projects a completely persuasive  sense of *goodness*…