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Reviews

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  My Neighbors the Yamadas 1999

  

  Stephen Gillespie ★★★ 5

  Humour me as I engage with a tortured metaphor. You see, Yamadas is a slice of life anime. Those slices, think of them as slices of bread. Each slice is…

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  Hatchet III 2013

  

  Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★½ 4

  The set-up for Hatchet III deviates just enough from the previous movies that it doesn't feel like a complete rehash. It is leaps and bounds better than the second movie…

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  The Winning of Barbara Worth 1926

  

  David Punch ★★★★

  Despite the omnipresence of land as a character and setting for every Western film, few utilize the attempted taming of the West as a focal theme in the universal tradition…

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  Sound of the Mountain 1954

  

  Arthur Slugworth ★★★★

  After coming away from Naruse's deeply understated melodrama The Sound of Mountain with a bit of disappointment, I took a week or so to let the film percolate in my…

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  The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun 1983

  

  VonBergundy ★★★½

  Vera Chytilová's existential sex comedy is a bit light on sex and comedy, but heavy on the existential. It's the story of a sexually active older man failing to come…

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  See for Me 2021

  

  noire ★★★★★

  ohhhhhhhhhhhhh my god this was so fucking good, the acting was top tier and i love a good final girl thriller. the plot had perfect pacing and i was just…

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  Tomorrow at Ten 1962

  

  Chloe

  It’s a kidnap thriller with almost no thrills, but the police procedural aspect is quite involving, and it flirts with questions of class in an interesting if ultimately unsatisfying way.…

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  Quicksilver 1986

  

  yarb ★★★ 4

  The time: 1986.
  The place: New York City — or maybe San Francisco, I'm still not sure after extensive online research.
  The man: Kevin Bacon, Kev of the unfeasibly large…