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Recent reviews

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  Dark Habits 1983

  ★★★ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  I was hoping for a bit more but even Almódovar knows that sapphic movies are ninety percent yearning, 10 percent arm grazing.

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  Heretic 2024

  Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Starts strong, fizzles out. This is the guy in your lecture who says “This is more of an statement than a question BUT”

Popular reviews

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  Johnny Guitar 1954

  ★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2024

  A psychosexual drama in a fluorescent western Disneyland set. It’ is at time so artificial looking it almost crosses over to campy art film. 
  To me, the undercurrent in this movie is the unspoken history between Vienna and Emma Smalls. Why is Emma burning up with hatred for Vienna? Is it just Viennas improper way of life, her love affair with the man Emma supposedly has a thing for (we see no evidence of this)? My theory is very forbidden,…

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  Harakiri 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2025

  Extremely competent in all aspects, social realism in feudal Japan. I’m unfortunately just not that interested in feudal Japan.

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