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The Taste of Things 2023
They really had a pan the exact size and shape of a stingray. The single-egg frying pan of its day.
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Owning Mahowny 2003
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died – ten years ago today – the best living actor became an open question.
There really was no one like him.
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The Iron Claw 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Wondered how Sean Durkin's haunted sensibility would meld with a more conventional narrative. The thematically elusive quality I latched onto in his first two features is absent, replaced here by a theme that's startlingly forthright by comparison – "the real curse is bad dads," if I'm being glib. Straightforward or not, it's effective stuff, made better by Durkin's talents behind the camera. His sensibility may take backseat to his fedelity to this true story, but it's there – this thing…
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