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Notorious 1946
My 2025 Hitchcock run continues with what I think might be his most underrated film. I thought TO CATCH A THIEF and DIAL M FOR MURDER were great for what they wanted to be but nothing too special. We all know the greatness of VERTIGO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST and REAR WINDOW, but I think NOSTALGIA belongs in that category. It's certainly his best early film, from his black and white era.
Sometimes old movies, as great as they are, suffer…
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The Swimmer 1968
I'd been meaning to watch this movie for a while because The Swimmer is one of my favorite short stories ever. It's always hard to divorce a movie from its source material when I'm such a huge fan of said source material (see: John Huston's THE DEAD), but I try anyway.
This is a self-contained story from the waning halcyon days of American suburbia, when the white picket fences started to rot and falter, and everyone realizes what's happening except…
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Mickey 17 2025
MICKEY 17 is a heavy-handed and superficial take on fascism and the soulless dystopia it creates. What made Bong Joon-ho's PARASITE so great is both the profundity with which it meditates upon the class struggle and the heartbreaking reveal at the end; it's not an innovative take on world politics but a raw, slice-of-life display that humanizes the struggle. MICKEY 17 is larger in scope and quite literally otherworldly-- with a riveting plot idea about the expendable nature of lower-class…
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Anora 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I figured I had to watch this at some point. I thought it was a good movie. It's the only Sean Baker film I've seen other than THE FLORIDA PROJECT (which I thought was a little bit better), but this was good. Despite the handwringing on social media I think it was a pretty good portrayal of sec workers/erotic dancers in the sense that it humanizes them and explores them as people rather than objects, which is unfortunately rare for…
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