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Recent reviews

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  Marie Antoinette 2006

  Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Atrocious soundtrack. It’s a dangerous game to let your film lean on iconic songs to hit certain emotional beats, but massacring the 5 minute opening track of one of the greatest albums of all time to fit into a 40 second scene is an abuse, and it doesn’t help how poorly they chopped the intro with the outro. Outside of what they did to Plainsong, the scene with What Ever Happened, yet another iconic intro track to another era defining…

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  Letter Never Sent 1960

  Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Just like that I complete the trio of film collaborations between Kalatozov and Urusevsky. May I never get jaded or unimpressed by what cinema has to offer, but I wonder how much better it gets than this. “Some people never have an occasion to recall this oath in their entire lifetime. There is just no need. But sometimes Tania, we have no more food. We are dead tired. But we must say No to weakness! No to disbelief! No to despair! And Yes to our boundless faith. Yes! Yes! Yes!”

Popular reviews

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  Blonde 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Oct 2022 2

  It’s a shame the conversation around this film has gone the way it has, because I really was losing interest in watching it. It is hard to describe this picture’s beauty when I know that a negative reaction is expected and even probably asked for. However, what happened between Andrew Dominik, Ana De Amas, Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis, is true magic.

  Blonde is a devastating and often surrealist flowing of loose narrative, that shifts it’s dreaminess between fantasy and…

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 22 Dec 2023 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.