Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Uptight 1968

  Watched 19 Feb 2022

  !!!!

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  Raising Arizona 1987

  ★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2022

  brain-dead rowdy run-around-and-break-things comedy with strong style and fine jokes and deeply disturbing family values. alas like so many popular pleasures i found mostly irritating ideological inconsequential. my fault for being a killjoy. this will be my last letterboxed review

Popular reviews

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  Thief 1981

  ★★ Watched 16 Dec 2021 1

  i am totally bewildered by the generally positive critical consensus around this movie. i guess my main problem is... it's not very good? inscrutable and unsympathetic protagonist, insultingly shabby love story, cheap and hammy sympathy set pieces, plot-by-numbers -- all fine, but played for drama and gritty realism in a mob-and-cop corruption flick?? oh and the major plot points are all explosions. no stealth or skill or process or technique to this heist, just saws and bombs and lasers. maybe i'm…

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  The Women 1939

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2022

  the moral of the movie is that marriage is made worthwhile by bitching with your backstabbing girlfriends. and if you can't cut it in new york there's always the divorcée ranch in reno. rest assured your man will find another. this movie invalidates the bechdel test

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