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  Daaaaaalí! 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

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

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  The Naked City 1948

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Recently Martin Scorsese named this as his favourite New York based feature film* so I thought I'd give it a shot, and overall I liked it though it wasn't quite what I was expecting. That's mainly because it's a mixture of stark realism and hammy melodrama, I can imagine for its time the insight in to police investigations was fairly innovative, and when it uses the narrative to introduce various only briefly seen characters it's quite the romp. Some of…

Popular reviews

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  The Warriors 1979

  ½ Watched 31 May 2023

  I know a lot of people who love this film and consider it a cult classic, but I thought it was awful, and not even fun in a so bad it's amusing way. It's just so fucking boring, there are so many scenes of the characters hanging around on trains, platforms, or walking and running through the city in an incredibly dull manner, and often in silence too. It's packed full of agonisingly tedious scenes where characters glare at each…

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  Giddy Stratospheres 2021

  ½ Watched 20 Jul 2021 2

  Well I could be wrong but I think this might be the worst film of all time, I certainly can't think of anything I've disliked more. I mean, I guess it's not actively racist or homophobic or offensive in any way but it's so badly written, the performances are shockingly poor, Jamal Franklin and Nick Helm are okay in it but everyone else is terrible, as if they've never seen anyone acting before, while the story is the definition of…