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  The Silence of the Lambs 1991

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 30 Oct 2023

  The perfect two hour film. Not a second wasted.

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  Scream 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Oct 2023

  I’m back from a long unexpected hiatus —

  Legit embarrassing I’ve never seen this before and had no clue how smart it is. As an unabashed superfan of The Player, this needs to be in my yearly Halloween rotation

Popular reviews

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  Still Walking 2008

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Apr 2022

  Children help each other smell the vibrant hanging flowers; old men sulk about perceived disrespect and life passing them by; and grownups float somewhere in the middle, trying to raise their kids while remaining honorable in the eyes of their fathers.

  Sheeeesh, whatta heavy hitter. I think this movie perfectly encapsulates a day with the relatives. The forced fun, frantic energy, and intergenerational exchanges of awkwardness come through every scene. Maybe my favorite aspect of the direction is how the…

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  Contempt 1963

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2022

  Hey I got an idea — let’s get the 5 hottest French chicks in the universe and make them say stuff like “God did not invent man, but rather man invented God.” Wait, let’s put it on the Italian coast and shoot it in technicolor… alright I’m in!

  [In reality this movie sorta sucks. There’s nothing I hate more than people sulking out of nowhere and making you play the guessing game about why they’re mad. Yeah yeah yeah I…

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