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  • Vertigo
  • One from the Heart
  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends
  • The Long Gray Line

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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★

  • Presence

    ★★★★½

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    ★★★★

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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  • Vengeance Is Mine

    Vengeance Is Mine

    ★★★★★

    Raindrops spatter and clatter against the window. Make ripples in the surface of the pond. Night as quiet as it ever was. Faces glowing in the dark. You open your mouth to scream but your jaw hangs open, ghastly, like a ventriloquist's dummy. The sight of you haunts me.

    Twice in this film one tells another, "I love you." Twice they are told in response, "I know." So much of what is told here is what is conveyed in the…

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    ★★★★★

    I sometimes question why we, in our quest for supposed growth and maturation, become so eager to excise all which was once astonishing or beautiful to us. We move to decry the works that once filled us with feeling, which moved us, which made us to see greater and deeper; we desecrate in dull words which obfuscate their harshness that which is “corny,” or “sentimental,” all in service of a favor towards a realism that we are all too happy…

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  • Presence

    Presence

    ★★★★½

    What defines Soderbergh to me is three distinct concepts: individuals, systems, and spectatorship. For his entire career he has been interested in these ideas and, notably, how they intersect---the way that individuals are caught in systems, oppressed, trapped, liberated, molded by them; the way that systems inflict spectatorship upon the individuals; the role that the camera plays as spectator within the film. I'd say that his strongest realization of this is in Unsane, a film that is fundamentally about the…

  • Silver Linings Playbook

    Silver Linings Playbook

    ★★★★★

    "For months at a time I have carried ropes, blades and enough tricyclic antidepressants to kill me twice over, in the boot of my car. In the past I have had access to a fatal pharmacoepia of emergency drugs through my general practice work.

    I know where to buy a gun. I know the fatal dosages of the drugs I take. I have considered railway crossings, bridges over rivers, driving off roads into valleys and electrocution. I have made close…

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  • Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

    Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance

    guys hear me out what if we *lights cigarette* transformed this sprawling mythopoeic tale of human identity and the dehumanization of people at the hands of institutions of violence into *chugs four loko* a shell of its formal self where the original rugged aestheticism is replaced with a sterile palette of washed-out colors and bad CGI and hear me out what if we also *snorts coke* sexualized the mentally damaged 14-year-olds even MORE than we did in the original 

    also what if the ending song sucked

  • A Town Called Panic

    A Town Called Panic

    This is the future that liberals want