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Reviews

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  Living on Velvet 1935

  

  Patrick Preziosi ★★★★

  Mostly inert until Kaye Francis shows up, her presence enlivening not just the film (which was hitherto a Wellman pastiche in its slew of front-loaded dramatic events), but George Brent…

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  Both Sides of the Blade 2022

  

  Nick Newman

  I interviewed Claire Denis.

  While shooting there is a sort of… I am incapable to have that distance, to feel joy or fear. It’s a mixture of… the restlessness came…

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  An Autumn Afternoon 1962

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★½

  A bittersweet very funny and not so quiet devasting movie about things ending and starting that is animated by its many paradoxes. One of the major tragedies of Ozu's western…

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  Crimes of the Future 2022

  

  Connor Denney ★★★★

  As a filmmaker given to literalizing what most others would keep as subtext, David Cronenberg has a filmography filled with works that could be seen as ne plus ultras of…

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  Joint Security Area 2000

  

  David Jenkins ★★★★

  Possibly Park's most completely formulated and executed film – no stylistic funny business, just a slick, focused Hawksian neo-western about fraternal bonding between political antagonists. I much prefer it when…

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  Dazed and Confused 1993

  

  Jake Bart ★★★★★

  there will never be a better Richard Linklater movie.

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  American Graffiti 1973

  

  Jake Bart ★★★★

  i just love how much sour there is with the sweet here. i think its remarkably clear-eyed about its characters and their limitations.

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  Mildred Pierce 2011

  

  Matt Erspamer ★★★★★ 2

  Parts 1-2: She was a waitress wearing a white dress 

  Parts 3-4: Look how she does this, look how she got this 

  Part 5: Down at the men in music…