Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

• Beast Stalker

  Beast Stalker 2008

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★ 2

  Solid cop movie with good action scenes done in the annoying mid-2000s digital shakycam style. Gets all Griffithian at the end, both with a cascade of grain and Nicholas Tse’s…

• Blood Brothers

  Blood Brothers 1973

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★½ 2

  Men of action marching towards doom. Among Cheh's most masochistic works and one of his more dramatic precise.

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

  The 36th Chamber of Shaolin 1978

  

  josh lewis 🌹 ★★★★★

  "i should have learned kung fu instead of ethics."

  athletic cinema. the human form in carefully balanced motion and how the camera rhymes with it. this power belongs to all…

• The Rainmaker

  The Rainmaker 1997

  

  Aster ★★★★½ 2

  All of the sophistication of Coppola's 70s style matured into a termite approach to a genre gone lazy by 1997. Coppola's fascination with individuals and institutional power, framing the proximity…

• Bisbee '17

  Bisbee '17 2018

  

  matt lynch ★★★★

  Greene has been refining his metadoc aesthetic over a few features now but to this one he's added the pace, empathy, and socioeconomic concerns of a melodrama like Sayles' LONE…