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Recent reviews

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  After Dark, My Sweet 1990

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Great film from a classic Jim Thompson novel. Beware the version currently available free with ads on YouTube - it's very heavily censored.

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  Dolemite Is My Name 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 03 Dec 2024

  It may not dig very deep but this is a fundamentally sweet-natured and kind-hearted biopic, a great companion piece to the writers' earlier work on Tim Burton's Ed Wood.

Popular reviews

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  Texasville 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024 5

  One is always apprehensive about sequels made so long after the previous film (just think of Godfather 3 for instance or Lucas'return to the Star Wars saga) - but few got as critically mauled as this one did, a follow-up by Peter Bogdanovich to his breakthrough success from 1971, The Last Picture Show. That's a shame because this is much better than its reputation might suggest, especially in its extended edition. The film is a little kinder to its characters…

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  Three Days of the Condor 1975

  ★★★½ Added

  This low-key piece of espionage, a kind of 39 Steps brought up to date, inadvertently caught the post-Watergate zeitgeist with its cynical view of government and the intelligence community. Robert Redford is the low level CIA operative on the run from he knows not whom, Faye Dunaway the girl he meets and Max von Sydow the cool killer for hire. Meticulously directed by Sidney Pollack, this is a thriller that still works extremely well, its central distrust of large organisations continuing to chime with the times …