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Antonio das Mortes 1969

Watched 05 Apr, 2020

Esse sentimento DMX.
An Officer and a Spy 2019

Watched 22 Mar, 2020

There are spare windows into the prison life of Louis Garrel's Dreyfus that suggest a total masterpiece wholly in spirit with its director's many Sisyphean (or if we could ascribe an entire mindset to the author, Polanski-Sisyphean) tales. But this — fully, thoroughly, exhaustively — tells its true story as a man-fights-the-system procedural, and to such ends: superb.

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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019

Watched 22 Jul, 2019 5

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

(Though they are clearly marked.)
• Significant that this is the first Tarantino period film set in his lifetime, specifically when he was six. Hollywood often seems to be seen through youthful eyes, amazed at the existence of the world itself, treating a wind-whipped convertible drive, the aural wallpaper of radio ads and snippets of songs both unknown and not (dig that inversion of "Mrs. Robinson") as the spectacle. How many sound-image combos in his canon are as exhilarating as…
Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018

Watched 23 Jul, 2018

One part was so exciting that I squeezed my legs too hard and hurt my balls.