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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Felt like a party bus speeding by, coke & all. Unfortunately, I wasn't in it.

  Cast-driven and characteristically American. If I had any cultural connection to New York, comedy history, or SNL it'd probably hit much harder.

  was very pretty though

  + Rachel Sennott

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  La Chinoise 1967

  ★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Marx? Lenin? Revolution? No thank you, one French polycule please.

Popular reviews

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  Mirror 1975

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 31 May 2022

  The fact I re-watched this one day after my first viewing should be a testament to its power as a work of art.

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  Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes 1997

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  REAL neorealism

  neorealism but REAL (social too)

  Much like in Okupas, Stagnaro's Pizza, Birra, Faso , is built entirely on its environment. The scene acts as a soaking mechanism to bathe characters in superstructure. They appear as extensions of everything else happening around them.

  We know little of Cordoba's backstory, even less so of Ruben or Frula's, but it hardly matters for the story being told. Why would it? We know they live in run-down home somewhere -- probably squatting.…