jhalabe

jhalabe

Favorite films

  • Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
  • Magnolia
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Raging Bull

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  • Hundreds of Beavers

    ★★★★

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  • American Gigolo

    ★★★

  • Emilia Pérez

    ★★

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★½

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    The first 40 and the last 15 minutes of this movie are excellent. The middle was a long slog of Lilly Rose Depp frothing at the mouth and various men in top hats going “No, this cannot be! You’re hysterical I tell you.” I enjoyed the blood and guts Gothic vibes of this movie the same way I enjoy visiting the Spirit Halloween store. But I wouldn’t spend 2.5 hours inside the Spirit Halloween Store.

  • Magic Mike's Last Dance

    Magic Mike's Last Dance

    ★★★

    If the first Magic Mike movie was a note perfect satire of American masculinity and the second Magic Mike movie was a road trip comedy undone by a lack of narrative cohesion, the third movie is somewhere in between. Magic Mike: The Last Dance obviously has something it wants to say about men, women, and the politics of desire but can’t quite say it in between shticky “American abroad” gags and a second act that is too long for its…

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