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  The Canterbury Tales 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  So fun, so hilarious, so aesthetically pleasing. This makes me less ashamed to be human and not some urge-less, unfeeling, perfect automaton.

  It’s wonderful to see normal looking, imperfect people enjoying themselves: having sex, eating, loving, drinking, engaging in the pleasures of life without the self-loathing that settles-in during and afterwards (or maybe this is just me).

  For the roommates it must’ve seemed that I was chuckling along to some very strange softcore porn, on the big tv, in the…

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  The Family 2013

  ★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Starts out funny (yet callously violent). Actually, this starts out hilarious: mob-family caricatures galivanting through a quiet Norman town. But this gets old when: 1. I realized that every single French character is a pompous European, and 2. The Family wants me to care about, well, the family, when they’re sadistic superheroes.

  ​I hate it when movies play deaths or maiming for laughs. It’s worse when they do it and then expect me to care about their main characters. This…

Popular reviews

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  The Dark Crystal 1982

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Feb 2024

  The Dark Crystal is so much more than the Millennial nostalgia-fest I suspected; its enthralling fantasy world treated sincerely gave it a way-in to penetrate my feelings, rending the cynicism from me that hampers adults from experiencing that childlike wonder again.

  That might be some pretentious babble, but I'm trying to elucidate how this film surprisingly affected me.

  One scene stands out: about a minute where Kira hums a lullaby and Jen listens, then joins-in on the flute. The shots…

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  The Big Sleep 1946

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Oct 2023

  I recently finished the book and wanted to check-out its famous adaptation. The novel paled in comparison to The Long Goodbye, but it was moody and gripping nonetheless, though lacking the emotional wallops and greater introspection of the latter.
  The Big Sleep is a fine film: competent, entertaining, occasionally thrilling; it often lifts lines from the book but does it well. The love story is trite though and dampens my enthusiasm for it (though I have biased myself against it…

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