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Recent reviews

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  All That Heaven Allows 1955

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2025

  First time on the big screen. The credits don’t allow nearly enough time to compose yourself before returning to the world outside.

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  The Substance 2024

  ★½ Watched 10 Oct 2024

  If you’re going to quote from Hitchcock then you should probably give the audience a bit of a break before a double Kubrick.

  You can feel the lines of the script that were double underlined for emphasis.

Popular reviews

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  Pauline at the Beach 1983

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Aug 2014

  To misquote Godard:

  "All you need for a movie is a girl and the sun."

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  Miami Vice 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 27 Jan 2014

  "How fast does that go?"
  "It goes very fast."
  "Show me."

  Mann's digital compression of space and time (those suits with those phones!) only lets up when they escape into the past - Havana is rendered here as a literal time warp.

  This gets better and better with each viewing. (Theatrical cut obvs.)

  "Time is luck."