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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★ Watched 27 Dec 2024

  What happens when someone with a Pinterest account thinks she can update The Piano Teacher

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  Disclaimer 2024

  ★★ Watched 08 Nov 2024

  I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this annoyed with such a bullshit ending. It’s been 74 years since Rashomon came out, how come this feels like such a major step backwards?

Popular reviews

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  Brewster McCloud 1970

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2013

  Points for originality and daring. Out of the many oddities in his career, none is so fiercely idiosyncratic and just the mere fact that it got made warrants celebration. Its oddball logic, with a sense of humor that flirts back and forth between both low-key and broad, suggests a steady diet of comic books and underground literature so much that it's easy to imagine as one of the indie graphic novels that nowadays get published to deservedly great acclaim.

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  Gervaise 1956

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Jan 2013

  Maria Schell's commitment to giving an open yet grounded, luminous performance as the sweet Gervaise makes this picture a triumph even before we take into account the director's accomplishments. It's a shame the Cahiers du Cinema brats poo-poohed René Clement's oeuvre just because he didn't meet their auteur standards... At his best, Mr. Clement's films managed to effortlessly convey the vividly authentic, lived-in sense of a specific time and place, whether it's the sun-drenched lives of the jet-set in Italy…

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