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  • The Boy Friend
  • Almost Famous
  • Quadrophenia
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  • Deliverance

    ★★½

  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always

    ★★★★½

  • The Devils

    ★★★★½

  • The Sound of Music

    ★★★★★

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  • Deliverance

    Deliverance

    ★★½

    Went into this with a less than positive feeling around it, so I’ll start with things i did like. Loved the cinematography. Loved that they shot on sight. Loved dueling banjos. I think it made a really good case on the destruction of southeastern Appalachia thru the deliberate flooding of impoverished towns… which I wish they would’ve focused on. Kind of contradicts that statement when you characterize SE Appalachians as incest-loving, rapey, backwards, and stupid. In general, the Hollywood Evil…

  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always

    Never Rarely Sometimes Always

    ★★★★½

    Really quite devastating and somber, but i couldn’t look away. Not a huge fan of the fade to black transitions but pretty overlookable, conserving everything else going on

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  • The Devils

    The Devils

    ★★★★½

    This is just what happens everyday in your brain when you’re a cradle catholic 

    Genuinely fucking disturbing and i don’t know how much of that is just a lingering aversion to blasphemous imagery, as a preformentioned “cradle Catholic.” The entire film had such an awful air of death, and this really heavy feeling around it that made my skin crawl. The imagery throughout was extremely striking and, despite the foreboding feel, I was very taken by how beautiful so many…

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★★½

    What a strange little man

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