JBPretty

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Favorite films

  • Ikiru
  • The Wages of Fear
  • The Third Man
  • Chungking Express

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  • Married to the Mob

    ★★★★

  • Mrs. Miniver

    ★★★★

  • The Cotton Club

    ★★★

  • Prince of Darkness

    ★★★★½

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  • Married to the Mob

    Married to the Mob

    ★★★★

    Good, clean American fun. Doesn’t count as a spy cops scandal if you’re a big enough of a dork and you model non-toxic masculinity to the audience.

  • Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    ★★★★

    Probably the WWII propaganda movie that works best as propaganda. Raises civilian efforts to heroism on par with soldiers and really spells out as plain as day to the soldiers watching in camp what the stakes are. All thanks to a really every woman performance by Garson.

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  • The Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady

    ★★★

    I admire Campion for not softening the source material, but she also doesn’t try to recreate the harder edge the story would’ve had to 19th century readers. Everyone other than Kidman seems about 10-15% less intense than they should be.

  • Eephus

    Eephus

    ★★★★½

    Tremendous hang of a movie capped by one of the greatest examples of photographing fall that you’ll ever see

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