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Rosetta 1999
I remember watching this on HBO in high school around when it would have first shown up there. It was one of my first entrées into European arthouse cinema and I was blown away; I didn’t know a movie could look like or do the things it was doing or be as raw and realistic as it was. I definitely wasn’t prepared for the singular performance by Émilie Dequenne, the kind of performance that feels like it transcends acting, where…
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Colombiana 2011
I watched The Losers and this back-to-back. Of the post-Avatar Zoe Saldaña action vehicles, they’re both dumb but I’ll take this movie’s “we treat the characters sincerely” and “we care about depicting process” over The Losers’ “we’re above all this, laugh at our unfunny adolescent jokes” shtick any day.
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Turn Me On 2024
Pleased to report that all the things Griffin does in the trailer he does in the movie too.
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