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Recent reviews

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  The Mule 2018

  ★★★½ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Clint Eastwood’s Monsieur Verdoux: or How Unc Learned to Start Worrying and Find His Chill. A proficient, cable-grade crime thriller and an exceptional melancholic mood piece about reckoning with failure and learning to appreciate a world that left you behind. Full of simple pleasures, contemplative emotion, and startlingly great direction. Anybody who called this “MAGA cinema” on release wasn’t wrong, but I hope as time has passed, they’ve been able to take a step back and realize how funny it is.…

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  West of Zanzibar 1928

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Watched a VHS rip so shitty it shaded a black-and-white movie with chromatic aberration. Still… these images are unbelievable. Expressive, exciting, and exoticist beyond all expectations. Browning more than thornily shoots Zanzibar and its natives like aliens on another planet. Chaney performs like his nervous system is a fuse and his heart is made of dynamite. I am always going to enjoy one of the great actor-director duos telling a morally complicated story that’s not above ugly consequences. Especially one where that actor sits around with a chimpanzee in his lap.

Popular reviews

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  Malice in Wonderland 1982

  Watched 31 May 2021 3

  Probably what Gaspar Noé sees sometimes.

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  Jefftowne 1997

  Watched 04 Oct 2020 1

  Watched this cause of Nick Mullen on Cum Town. What an odd documentary, a part of me feels like it wasn’t ever meant to be seen, like it should have just stayed on the VHS tapes it was filmed on. Incredibly interesting, just not exactly sure what I’m supposed to take away. Check it out if it sounds interesting, I mostly watched it cause it’s an hour and I wanted another thing to log tonight.

  
  Edit: No longer a CT fan. No regrets though. Everyone’s sixteen, stupid, and miserable at some point in their lives.