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Reviews

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  Antonio Gaudí 1984

  

  6891lybonrehc ★★★

  Watched as part of my Century of Cinema watchlist

  Teshigahara's documentary on Gaudi interests me for two reasons. First off, it is not a simple documentary with interviews and a…

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  Dune 2021

  

  6891lybonrehc ★★½ 1

  I am sad to say that this attempt at Herbert's classic will only reinforce the prevailing superstition of Dune's supposed "unadaptibility." Villeneuve, in my opinion, very much attempts to pursue…

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  The Great Silence 1968

  

  6891lybonrehc ★★½

  Not particularly impressed by this revisionist spaghetti western. Soaked in blood, over the top camerawork, and blanketed in a white layer of shaving cream rather than snow (lol). Morally ambiguous…

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  Africa Addio 1966

  

  Zint ★★★★ 1

  They're about to execute us when a rebel officer sees one of our passports and shouts: "Wait! These aren't whites...these are Italians."

  The ultimate pleb-filter. You either get it or…

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  Africa Addio 1966

  

  Jacob Knight ★★★½ 1

  'AFRICA ADDIO is a brutal, dishonest, racist film. It slanders a continent and at the same time diminishes the human spirit. And it does so to entertain us.'

  All of…

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  Chungking Express 1994

  

  6891lybonrehc ★★★★

  Every Indian guy in this movie is a king

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  La Haine 1995

  

  garwin ★★★★

  Borrows liberally from Scorsese and Spike Lee to an extent that gets kind of egregious at times. Nevertheless, it really comes into its own in the second half, building to…

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  La Haine 1995

  

  piangero ★★★★★

  “Did you ever hear the joke about the guy falling off the roof?”

  One of those films that actually leaves you with your mouth wide open and at a loss…