Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Censor 2021

  

  Emmett ★★ 7

  not watching these any more

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  Matinee 1993

  

  Josh Glenn ★★★★

  Joe Dante’s prestige picture: his equal and opposite reaction to The New Batch and the perfect missing piece in his cinematic worldview. Manages to simultaneously be an earnest look at…

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  Naked 1993

  

  Josh Glenn ★★★★½

  I’d never gotten around to seeing this before, so the new BFI 4K restoration seemed like a good excuse to fill the gap. And what an experience it was: a…

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  Thirst 2009

  

  Josh Glenn ★★★★

  Applying a bold, brash genre framework to a meditation on desire vs. faith/etiquette/morality, Thirst finds Park at that sweet spot between operatic elegance and tawdry exploitation. Song is typically magnificent,…

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  Once Upon a Time in the West 1968

  

  Josh Glenn ★★★★½

  There’s so much space in Once Upon a Time in the West, whether it’s the expansive landscape in the process of being tamed, the gaps between (or even within) Morricone’s…

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  Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974

  

  KYK ★★★★★ 2

  My essay for The Nation:

  In the soft light of what looks like early morning or the fleeting minutes before sunset, a woman stumbles out of a brick-walled, vine-covered house…

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  Il Sorpasso 1962

  

  russman ★★★★ 10

  Someone please destroy that car horn

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  Syndromes and a Century 2006

  

  Emmett ★★★★

  honestly the pipe shot could have been like ten minutes longer. rly appreciated how different the camera style was in the second half. maybe my fav of Joe’s musical numbers.…