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Recent reviews

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  The Balloonatic 1923

  ★★★ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A bit funny for how much of a cad it makes Keaton out to be at the beginning standing outside on the street trying to get attention from women or when he tries to kiss the girl in the tunnel of love and comes out with a black eye. It positions the audience to take a little more justifiable fun in his pain as a kind of comeuppance rather than the normal mode part of the fun being coming from…

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  College 1927

  ★★★½ Rewatched 19 Mar 2025

  I was a little less enthused about it this watch until the climax, which somehow elevates all the prior gags of athletic failure. The characterization of Keaton is pretty charming in this film, he doesn’t seem to care too much about his continual humiliations and alienations from all the groups of men around him. All he cares about is how the girl views him and protecting her. The story doesn’t quite allow for the distinctive use of camera perspective of…

Popular reviews

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  The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959

  ★½ Watched 19 Apr 2019 1

  Benign liberalism in the style of a middlebrow prestige film. It wears its ideology so blatantly that there is no subtext to the film. This isn't necessarily something I'm against, but there needs to be something visceral to the filmmaking to make the viewer feel the ideology. Here we get a main character who plainly states his "theories" about how to treat his fellow man. We take him as being right because there is nothing especially radical about his ideas,…

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  The Wolf of Wall Street 2013

  ★★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan 2014

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