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Recent reviews

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  The Black Hole 1979

  ★★½ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Solid special effects, but so talky and slow in the first hour.

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  Room at the Top 1958

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Feb 2025

  Social climber Harvey wants to marry a girl above his station, but he falls for the older, wiser Simone Signoret instead. Signoret is great, and deservedly won the Best Actress Oscar. Top notch Oscar-winning script, too.

  Why does the movie art use an image that spoils the ending?

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 18 Nov 2024

  Not gonna lie—I wasn't looking forward to this.

  I was lukewarm on the Broadway show, the running time is 2 hours and 41 minutes, and it's only Part One. (Plus, I took it as a bad omen that Cynthia Erivo was so insulted by the fan art that used her image to replicate the iconic stage show poster. I know the fan art obscured her face, but it didn't seem disrespectful. Then again, it wasn't MY face hidden under the…

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  Caged 1950

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Feb 2024

  One of the first women-in-prison movies, and far less lurid than the exploitation fare that followed in later decades. Eleanor Parker is great as the naive inmate who grows hardened by her time in the pokey. It was strange to see the actress who played the Baroness in The Sound of Music in such environs.

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