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  • Children of Men
  • Still Walking
  • Aftersun
  • In the Mood for Love

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  • Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    ★★★

  • Akira

    ★★★★★

  • Dragonball Evolution

  • Labyrinth of Cinema

    ★★★★★

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  • Inland Empire

    Inland Empire

    ★★★★

    I think the question here is does a strong ending make up for any earlier perceived shortcomings? In the case of Inland Empire I don’t yet have an answer…. I’m sure being able to articulate its meaning would help find such an answer but then it wouldn’t be a Lynch film. 

    What I do know about the film is that it’s by far Lynch’s scariest film, not in the usual “horror” sense of scary but instead in a dread-inducing Lynchian concoction…

  • Speed Racer

    Speed Racer

    ★★★★½

    I had seen Speed Racer when I was a kid and it resonated with me enough that I had the toy set with the Mach 5. However there was a point where, while presumably playing with it, I hid the Mach 5 in a cabinet, a cabinet where it lay dormant for probably about a year before I rediscovered its tomb and proceeded to play with it like it was never lost. That was all the memory I had of…

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  • Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    ★★★

    Chemistry is great and it’s funny and the big scene is really good but idk it didn’t click for me everywhere else

  • Akira

    Akira

    ★★★★★

    Textbook definition of electric. Literally changed the game. 

    Any shortcomings with it are made up for by it being Akira.

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  • Snowpiercer

    Snowpiercer

    ★★★★

    I know it’s been said before but Bong may be the GOAT for getting that performance out of Chris Evans

  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    Should’ve been about basketball so Inside the NBA could talk about it.

    Ernie: in other news Art Donaldson being cucked by his wife!

    Kenny: you know that happened to me one time in Houst—-

    Shaq: CHUCK TELL THEM HOW MANY RINGS SHE HAS!!! 

    Chuck: One too many Shaq. Those big ol women in San Antonio know about that!