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Recent reviews

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  Foe 2023

  ★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  The movie is utterly unwatchable. I wonder what motivated the leads to participate in this mess.

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  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024

  ★½ Watched 21 Feb 2025 3

  SO gawd awful. The wonderful MacArthur Park doesn’t deserve to be a part of this mess.

Popular reviews

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  Call Me by Your Name 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2018 8

  Bravo! Pure, passionate, cinematic perfection. Luca Guadagnino, an existential romantic on par with Bertolucci and Sorrentino, has done it again! ❤️

  
  "Call Me By Your Name" is something to behold. It affected me deeply. There's a rawness to it, and yet a profound lyricism. There's beauty in its introspective view of longing and observant search for affection, and still a ripe carnality to its depiction of the loss of sexual innocence. Multiple times throughout this beautiful affair, the movie took…

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  Greta 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2019 2

  Nobody flips a table like Isabelle Huppert!

  The premise and general plot machinations of “Greta” are well-navigated terrain. Think, “Fatal Attraction”, “Single White Female”, and particularly “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” (perhaps with a dash too, of Egoyan’s “Chloe” and writer/director Neil Jordan’s own too-harshly criticized “In Dreams” and “The Brave One”) and I think you get the idea. The result is a three-star script with four-star execution. You get a bravura camp performance by Isabelle Huppert, sexy vulnerability…