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Recent reviews

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  The Devil Is a Woman 1935

  ★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  This is a very strangely plotted movie that feels over fifty minutes in when the flashbacks end, only for you to look at your watch and realize that there are still thirty minutes to go. All the main characters act strangely all the time, which isn't an issue in itself, but the problem is that they're not interesting enough for us to care why they're like that. As I was watching the movie I was wondering if it had anything…

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  The Blue Angel 1930

  ★★½ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  This is very obviously an early talkie, and aside from the music it doesn't seem like anyone involved had any real sense of the potential of sound. Especially early in the movie, there are a lot of slow, wordless scenes, to the point that it feels at times that the songs might as well be goat-glanded in. Eventually we do get an final last act, but it takes an awfully long time to get there.

Popular reviews

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  She's Too Young 2004

  ½ Watched 18 Oct 2013 2

  Don't have sex. You will get syphilis and die.

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  Kidnapping, Caucasian Style 1967

  ★★★½ Watched 10 May 2015 2

  A white man from Russia comes to a Muslim community in the Caucasus, ignorant of the local culture, and proceeds to save a local Komsomol girl from the barbarous local custom of forced marriage and bring the perpetrators to justice in front of a proper Soviet court.

  In spite of all that, it is a delightful film.