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Reviews

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  Benediction 2021

  

  Wilson ★★★★★

  Benediction is real masterpiece. It manages to be both unbearably sad and the funniest film I've seen this year, which is remarkable filmmaking from Terence Davies. The witty dialogue and…

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  Private Property 1960

  

  Claxtondog ★★★½

  A home invasion movie, but the home is mainstream Hollywood melodrama and the invaders are a pair of Roger Corman film-students. The New Wave starts here.

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  Another Round 2020

  

  Josh Slater-Williams

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

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  Citizen Kane 1941

  

  David Jenkins ★★★★★ 2

  I always forget the feeling I have when watching Citizen Kane. It goes something like: Oh, that opening shot was very nice; hmm, that crossfade was gorgeous; wow, that whole…

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  Daisy Kenyon 1947

  

  Pamela Hutchinson ★★★★★

  The possibly perfect 1940s melodrama we don’t talk about enough.

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  My Twentieth Century 1989

  

  Mark Asch ★★★★½

  Twin sisters, urchins selling matches on the snowy streets of Bucharest, are separated as little girls; now, as the Orient Express pulls back into Hungary at midnight on New Year’s…

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  Duvidha 1973

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 4

  I suspect that if you drew a curve from The Color of Pomegranates to Uncle Boonmee, somewhere along the swirls and switchbacks and curlicues you’d flow straight though the heart…

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  Parasite 2019

  

  Pamela Hutchinson ★★★★½

  An all-time-great staircase movie. The inevitable American remake should be directed by the ghost of William Wyler.