Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  The Sun Shines Bright 1953

  

  Rick Burin ★★★½ 2

  Ford’s favourite of his films: an episodic, rose-tinted piece of secession-inflected paternalist nostalgia that is in love with both liberal ideas of tolerance and the ghosts of the Confederacy.

  It…

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  An Affair to Remember 1957

  

  Kai White ★★

  Oh, wow. An Affair To Remember had me in tears. Alas, it was tears of laughter.

  What a bird brained movie. Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant, looking very tired) is on…

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  The Long Good Friday 1980

  

  Ben Peterson ★★★★★ 2

  "There's a lot'a dignity in that, in't there? Goin' out like'a raspberry ripple."

  One could close their eyes and point to a spot on the script for this film and…

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  Vitalina Varela 2019

  

  James Westbrook ★★★★★

  A poem of shadows and poverty, striking faces in stark tableaux, like a series of baroque paintings brought out of the halls of 17th century nobles and into the homes…

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  Vitalina Varela 2019

  

  Daisoujou ★★★★★ 1

  The best secret cinema pick I've had yet! Thanks Theo!

  I want to also just say that Pedro Costa's films are challenging, certainly packed with meaning but open enough to…

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  Vitalina Varela 2019

  

  JamesSlaymaker ★★★★★

  Colossal Youth is about a culture in transition, its rootless subjects trapped between a miserable present and an uncertain future as they are transported from Fontainhas to a housing project;…

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  Landscape Suicide 1987

  

  Vera ★★★★½

  The opening moments of Landscape Suicide had my wife and I pause the film at the beginning to make sure there wasn't something wrong with how we were streaming it.…

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  Blackhat 2015

  

  James ★★★★½

  a few barely(?) comprehensible notes, the day after:

  • pillars of narrative (plot, character) are reduced to nodes, constantly obscured by the nesting of developments within mounds of obsessive detail,…