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  Sorry, Wrong Number 1948

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  This thriller is excellent, with intriguing flashbacks, disturbing and stressful phone calls, and convincing actors (Barbara Stanwyck is perfect). The suspense builds effectively, with well-executed direction: interesting camerawork and a luminous black and white setting.

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  Fight Club 1999

  ★★½ Watched 18 Mar 2025

  This film seems highly overrated. It started well, the concept of squatting anonymous meetings of different sick people was intriguing. But as soon as Brad Pitt arrives (always with the same one-dimensional acting range) everything becomes boring. Fights between men without any real purpose. Violence that achieves nothing and says nothing despite the pseudo-second-degree speech in voiceover. And it has aged rather badly, unlike other types of violent films dealing with (toxic) masculinity like Rolling Thunder or Vigilente, among others. Really more focused on the container than on the content. And way too long and too much non sense!

Popular reviews

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  The Innocents 1961

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  The kids are more creepy than the ghosts! Slow-paste but captivating story about a haunted house. Very convincing performances.

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  The Big Sleep 1946

  ★★★★ Watched 04 Sep 2024

  This « movie is about the process of a criminal investigation, not its results ». In another words, don’t expect to make any sense of whatever is going on in this
  « haze of murders ». At least I didn’t! But with that said, this film noir is so dynamic and full of twists, you just can’t stop watching even though the intrigue is incomprehensible (which can be very frustrating at the end). Of course Bogart and Bacall light up the screen, but honestly, I wish we saw more of Carmen, the nymphomaniac sister, plaid by Martha Vickers.

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