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  Phenomena 1985

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 29 Apr 2023

  So much of this one is in the nighttime shots of winds shaking the trees, and insects in flight lit up just right. At their best Argento's worlds simply overflow, spill over - dizzyingly crowded ontologies and characters who for better and worse are never alone. In this one, both beneath and above everything, love is the law - her love, their love, unquestioned and unfaltering across lines of life and death. To me it feels very theological that way. Sumptuous and magical <3

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  I Care a Lot 2020

  ★ Watched 22 Feb 2021

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

Popular reviews

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  I'm Thinking of Ending Things 2020

  ★★ Watched 19 Sep 2020

  i can't help feeling there's a meanness to this film as it unfolds toward its conclusion, an unkindness if not outright condescension to its subject(s) that undercuts some of what i think it's doing. i expected better honestly - synecdoche, new york is similarly celebral and tragicomic but it's laced with empathy and that helps to soften many of kaufman's more cutting observations. here, though, there is something like a touch of a sneer at times. i suspect that some…

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  Ed Wood 1994

  ★★★★ Added

  aged bela lugosi dancing with femme-mode ed wood gives me such life