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  Her Smell 2018

  Watched 12 Oct 2022

  Definitely a film where I'm not quite sure where I stand. I have a strong fascination with and appreciation for all things Riot Grrll/alterna-lady and this film is an immersion in Alex Ross Perry's idea of such a milieu taken to hell and then fully redeemed, all while doing it in a production design/fashion style that is updated to current tastes, casting many of the most smokily alluring women available to populate the scenery. All of that is very fun…

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  Pearl Jam Twenty 2011

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  It’s an inconvenient and disappointing detail of rock and roll reincarnation history that Eddie Vedder was in fact born before Jim Morrison passed. Because if that weren’t the case it seems that a good dose of visionary contemplation could allow one to figure out with almost mathematical precision that after Jim died he was probably immediately accosted by the celestial bureaucrats, who promptly informed him: “Okay, Jim. You’re extremely handsome and you’re very charismatic. You’re not half as smart or…

Popular reviews

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  Minari 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 23 Jun 2022

  There are a gazillion things to like about this, and I'm not sure where to start.

  Many films lately have sharp cinematography with sunlight peaking through the grass, but there's just something about the way nature is shot in this film that's lifelike in a way I have never quite seen before. So many movies over the past decade have aped the dreaminess of nature in a Malick-like way, but in this film there's that sense of the wonder of…

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  Seconds 1966

  ★★★★ Rewatched 21 Jun 2022

  All the comments claiming that this is basically an extended Twilight Zone episode are finally convincing me that it's time to check out that show. But can it really be as visually wild and as morally brutal as this? The film is mainly interesting to me as yet another debunking of the notion that Hollywood wasn't brave until "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" came around. So much of the periodization of film history is based on crackpot theories that…

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