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  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    ★★★½

  • Happy as Lazzaro

    ★★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★★

  • The Doom Generation

    ★★★★★

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  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    ★★★½

    Ok so this was good! For sure. Well shot and I was particularly into the father-son parallel.

    However, let’s be real: you watch this movie because you’re an acting fan, not because you’re a writing fan. This is nobody’s film but Philip Seymour Hoffman’s with plenty of very good moments from Ethan Hawke, but I am TIRED of pretending that these 2000s American noir films are masterpieces when they literally have NO idea how to write a woman. Like it’s…

  • Happy as Lazzaro

    Happy as Lazzaro

    ★★★★★

    Just unbelievable! Gorgeous

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  • A Prince

    A Prince

    ★★★★½

    Beautifully weird and queer and romantic! Equal parts strange and erotic, I could talk all day about the way it mystifies the passage of time and becomes a really pretty abstract sensual journey but I’d rather just enjoy it for what it is! Maybe love, maybe wanting, maybe belonging, but definitely plants and DEFINITELY penises. Fantastic watch.

  • Aftersun

    Aftersun

    ★★★★½

    Ughh. Bittersweet.

    Sometimes I wonder if the persistence of memory is more painful than it is sweet, or if we’re better off without them. But we’re not really human without them, are we? Kinda how this one felt to me