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  The Exorcist III 1990

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 07 Aug 2023

  The Exorcist III brings together the many disparate parts of its creator’s life — a culmination into a cinematic accomplishment that, frankly, is an under-appreciated work of interdisciplinary art. A glance at the critical response upon its release 33 years ago is disheartening. There’s a common complaint that the film is dull, talky, lacking in showing, with an overabundance of telling. It’s just too damn literary. They came for vomit and blasphemy, not monologues and Fabio. It didn’t help that…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★ Watched 07 Jul 2023

  In the final scene it dawned on me why something felt off throughout the film. It’s this: this is not Nora’s story. This is Hae Sung’s story. It’s a good movie, but it’s the wrong movie.

Popular reviews

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  Lorena 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2019

  It's like if THE THIN BLUE LINE were a doomed romance.

  Best line in cinema: “I mean, I cut his penis off. Leave me alone.”

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  Too Old to Die Young 2019

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Jun 2019

  This SATANTANGO remake is the cinematic event of 2019 imho.

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