It's really good. If wages of fear didn't exist this would be at least half a star higher
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A Serious Man 2009
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I have so many thoughts about this movie but suffice to say it hit very hard right now. The characters here are the descendants of the wave of eastern european Jewish immigrants that left their homelands around the turn of the century escaping pogroms and poverty. This is the era that our image of pre-holocaust jewish life comes from--the era of Fiddler on the Roof, the birth of secular Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the twilight of classical Rabbinic Judaism.…
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Heard She Got Murdered 2023
I showed this in conjunction with Heard She Got Married in what is probably the most tonally divergent double feature of all time. Imagine the gulf between Gremlins 1 and 2 and multiply it ten times; you're about half way there.
I love this movie so much. It's hard to pick s favorite Motern flick, but what I can say is that a number of the Motern virtues are here in their fullest flower: the obsessions with particular turns of…
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