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  Darling 1965

  

  Dylan ★★★★½ 4

  A bleak world of widespread rapacity, lying, and self-delusion, where each character's path constantly reveals itself, and John Schlesinger doesn't manipulate emotion or overdramatize, expressing each person's tormented soul with…

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  Running on Karma 2003

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★★ 6

  I'm still hung up on that list that called this a romantic comedy. I don't think it's either. There are some funny bits, but that doesn't make it a comedy.…

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  Running on Karma 2003

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★★ 4

  Not a cop film, certainly not a romantic comedy, but one of the most profound and deeply felt expressions of religious spirituality of any film this century.

  More at The…

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  Running on Karma 2003

  

  Diogo Serafim ★★★★★

  'I hope there will be no more killings.'

  Deeply spiritual, hauntingly mysterious work. Rushed, severely disjointed, all over the place, corny, non-sensical, irregular, gratuitous and a full-blown masterpiece. Lau as…

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  Afterglow 1997

  

  ContraCosta ★★★★½

  tfw u start watchin something that kinda superficially looks shitty, with over-acting from former twin peaks stars to horribly gauche and cheap set design, and then it blows your mind…

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  Afterglow 1997

  

  Etan Weisfogel ★★★★★

  Is there a better use of music in a film than Tom Waits' Somewhere cover at the end of this film? Maybe What'd I Say in Cosmic Ray for pure…

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  My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument 1996

  

  Etan Weisfogel ★★★★★

  For all intents and purposes, my favorite film. I like how Paul Dedalus is in one film a philosopher and in another an anthropologist--those strike me as Desplechin's two opposing…

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  Ismael's Ghosts 2017

  

  J. Winston ★★★★½ 1

  Desplechin has yet to make a film that isn't sprawling, messy, excessive, and imperfect. I love him all the more for it.