Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Postcards From the Edge 1990

  

  Atom ★★½

  Why would U2's guitarist write a series of postcards about Carrie Fisher's relationship with Debbie Reynolds? Makes about as much sense as the structure of this film's story.

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  Mac and Me 1988

  

  Zack Bender ★

  You gotta be swinging the most pendulous balls to claim “we’ll be back!”

  Sadly we as a society still aren’t ready for another Mac and Me adventure.

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  The Last Duel 2021

  

  Julian (The Film Seeker) ★★★★ 6

  Under normal circumstances, a director releasing two films in the same year is a sign that the first of these films is essentially a misfire in need of immediate rectification…

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  Yuni 2021

  

  Atom ★★½

  CIFF 2021 – #6

  If only one of Yuni’s suitors had introduced her to PURPLE RAIN, her decision would have gone a very different way.

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  Love and Anarchy 1973

  

  ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 2

  The farcical tragedy of an amateur anarchist in love.

  Both Tunin's greatest strength and his fatal flaw are loving too much: his romantic entanglement with Tripolina thwarts his plan to…

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  Sound of Metal 2019

  

  ScreeningNotes ★★★★★ 19

  "Have you had any moments of stillness?"

  I put off watching Sound of Metal because it didn't have any easy points of access for me, it didn't have a genre…

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  Koyaanisqatsi 1982

  

  ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 22

  As a technical exercise, I can't praise Koyaanisqatsi highly enough. The question of what to even call it is enough to give reviewers pause—is it a documentary? a motion-picture essay?…

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  Christopher Robin 2018

  

  Chris ★★★

  Completely charming if you are sitting next to a three-year-old who is REALLY digging this.

  If that's your viewing situation you're all set.