SweetestLou

SweetestLou

Favorite films

  • The Matrix
  • First Reformed
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • La Chimera

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  • Black Bag

    ★★★½

  • Harakiri

    ★★★★★

  • Erin Brockovich

  • Trap

    ★½

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  • Immaculate

    Immaculate

    ★★½

    A few successful highly camp elements, not least of all that they seemed to shoot in a real catacomb - you cant have them doing all that in there! Oh mama mia no!!

  • First Reformed

    First Reformed

    ★★★★★

    Dear Prudence,

    My friend is the revrend at a historic, small-town new england church. Lately, he is down real bad. A local industrialist reamed him out big time in front of his boss. Because the industrialist gives a ton of money to his mega-church employer, this friend basically got canned. It seems like what’s happening to him is tied up with everything else making people’s lives terrible under late capitalism. Plus he has been on this whole “how to blow…

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  • Onibaba

    Onibaba

    ★★★★½

    What incredible lighting. One of the best black and white films Ive ever seen. The composition just so stunningly enhances the themes and story.

  • The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

    ★★★

    Amazon Prime, penitenziagite! Repent! Seek help for having cut out the sex scene in this movie on your awful website!

    That scene—between THE NARRATOR and the CHARACTER REFERENCED IN THE TITLE—is the emotional core of this movie. It really cannot be overstated how vital it is to depicting Adso’s feelings towards the Girl, towards his faith and its austere requirements. It’s the entire dilemma motivating him and is what carries the emotion in the final scene.

    Don’t rip pages out…