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  • Detroit Metal City
  • Goth
  • Withnail & I
  • The Ninth Gate

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  • Kimi

    ★★½

  • The Big Short

    ★★★

  • True Crime

    ★★★

  • Under the Skin

    ★★★★

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  • The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders

    ★★★½

    Yes I did watch this just for Tom Hardy and Austin Butler and I'm not sorry.
    It's an atmospheric film filled with nostalgia and a lot of unspoken feelings, and all the actors in it are really, really good. The sets, the music, all of it blends wonderfully well. Tom Hardy is at his most Brando/Godfather ever, Jodie Comer disappeared into her character, and everyone was in love with Austin Butler, including the director, which is how things should be.…

  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★

    Completely awful. It has some good landscape shots and adequate music, but in every other way it's horrible. It has no connection to the books at all, and gives a bad representation of most of the characters. It does away with entire plot points. Alia doesn't even get to kill the Baron, and the Atreides sonic weapons, which are the whole reason why the Emperor had them killed, don't exist and aren't used in the final attack.
    It's just bad fanfiction.

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  • Au Revoir les Enfants

    Au Revoir les Enfants

    ★★★★★

    I am not sure whether this film is secretly famous and I just stumbled upon it by accident, or criminally underrated. I found it while looking for WW2 movies, and almost didn't watch it because I typically don't like movies about children (child actors tend to be bad more often than good). But I gave it a try.
    Within five minutes I was absolutely enchanted. This was specifically due to the scene where the children walk from the station to…

  • Psycho

    Psycho

    ★★½

    Starting with the obvious: this movie is badly directed, poorly acted, and it's ugly. It has a gorgeous poster though. Hell of a poster...
    But it's nevertheless a movie that should be watched by fans of the original, and especially by film students.

    It is an interesting remake for two reasons. Firstly because Van Sant did some things that Hitch had wanted to do but couldn't in 1960 - namely the title sequence with the bird's eye view of the…