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  • Next Stop, Greenwich Village

    ★★★½

  • First Reformed

    ★★★★½

  • Cunk on Life

    ★★★

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★

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  • Queer

    Queer

    ★★★½

    I wanted something more, or perhaps something different… but I suppose that’s the nature of the beast, innit?

  • Babygirl

    Babygirl

    ★★★★

    As thorny as it is horny.

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  • Next Stop, Greenwich Village

    Next Stop, Greenwich Village

    ★★★½

    I hadn't ever heard of Next Stop Greenwich Village, and were it not for a coworker's recommendation, I doubt I ever would've. I looked for it at my local library without luck. No library within the city's vast network of library catalogs had any record of the film. It's not streaming anywhere. It felt like a movie teetering on the precipice of non-existence, at risk of being lost in the ever-expanding sea of content. The idea that a film my…

  • First Reformed

    First Reformed

    ★★★★½

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

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  • Free Rein: Valentine's Day

    Free Rein: Valentine's Day

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★

    Eggers lays it on thick in his adaptation of Nosferatu, which cranks up the expressionist style to an eleven and never lets up. It’s a good adaptation of the material, if a bit over-steeped in surreal, gothic aesthetics. It’s unrelenting in its darkness, which may make it difficult for some to find any semblance of levity, but it ultimately befits the film Eggers sought to make.

    Really happy to see Lily-Rose Depp have an opportunity to display that she has…