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Vivacious Lady 1938
Extra half star for the horniest fight scene of the 1930s lmao. Where was that energy for the rest of this staid buttoned up little romance? Two hyper charismatic leads wasted by subpar direction smh
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The Creator 2023
Massive ambition will always paper over subpar filmmaking for me. This is a copy paste of every tired scifi trope, but I can see in it a glimpse of the beginnings of a subgenre of film that contends with AI as it will actually exist and not with it in the popular imaginary.
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Licorice Pizza 2021
What movie is everyone else watching here? I have a sneaking suspicion a lot of people are going to look back at this a lot less fondly in a few years. "Funny Because the Racism Is So Blatant" jokes, a meandering story that feels cringily autobiographical, and the conflict that acts as the engine for all this action is a "Will they? Won't they?" about pedophilia. Yuck.
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The Last Laugh 1924
Holy Hell. That this film could weaponize irony, sweep you up in a spacey drunken dream, and ground your heart to dust without any title cards is just astonishing.
Murneau was a master. I don't really have anything to add to the conversation about this film. I'm just thoroughly impressed.
(Also the poster LB chose for this is wonderful!)