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The Nutty Professor 1996
This is generally pretty bad and patronizing and exists more as a monument to Eddie's continued industrial staying power despite half a dozen consecutive flops than a coherent movie. At the same time, he (or Jerry, I guess) invented Ozempic/The Substance decades ahead of time, so credit where it's due I suppose.
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Femme Fatale 2002
DePalma basically doing French Body Double with likely inadvertent echoes of Mulholland Drive is fun because it's DePalma, but as a rule I hate all endings of this sort. At least half a star off for that. I absolutely love how DePalma uses split screens though, all the work that Kurosawa did in the entire runtime of Rashomon about fragmented identity and reality he accomplishes in any given one of those shots here. Cool to see him continuously picking up new signatures as he ages.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar 1977
Having never seen this before but knowing the basic premise I thought it was a funny bit for the Roxy to program it on Valentine’s Day, and then I felt a swell of pride after showing up and realizing the screening was sold out. God bless my fellow sickos here in Gotham. And yet, even we were all unprepared for that stunning ending.
For most of this, I thought it was strangely entertaining for such an ostensibly dangerous concept, and…
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Foxy Brown 1974
Pam beats the shit out of a bar full of white lesbians, burns two guys who were drugging her and keeping her hostage, then cuts off a guy’s dick and gifts it to his mistress with whom who she has a weird psychosexual rivalry. A+, no notes, love the movies!
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