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Recent reviews

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  Rounders 1998

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  "You can shear a sheep many times but only skin him once."

  Would you fund a theatrical release of Rounders? It wasn't a success at all on release but the DVD's did huge returns after its run on cable. So it's perfect for streaming/VOD but you also have to wonder if it gets as big of a cast or has the success it does without it's theatrical marketing push and the hot cast and director at the time.

  "... It's…

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  Wolfs 2024

  Watched 11 Mar 2025

  I don't understand how we have 4k and all that and the average movie is uglier than ever. Watched because it was inspired by Elmore Leonard, and I can't believe how boring it is to look at. It's not the shot composition, or a lack of color, those are actually quite good. But there's a weird low contrast thing to film now. Also the sound design is weird. There's a cut to Clooney listening to Sade in his car but…

Popular reviews

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  The Yakuza 1974

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2019 2

  "...Soon as I walk in the door she always says 'How's Harry?' So once a year I tell her how you are."

  The Wolverine movie we really deserved. A tragic fable about the pain of living a long life and seeing love and friendships and the people you do love pass away. In the 1970s film noir legend Robert Mitchum made two of his grittiest, best crime movies with The Friends of Eddie Coyle in '73 and this in '74.…

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  Swimming with Sharks 1994

  ★★★★ Watched 30 Jan 2021

  Jesus Christ. That ending fucked me up. There are definitely some flaws but the ambition here makes it well worth the watch. It's about an hour before one of the cuts into the present is actually useful, so I would've actually enjoyed it if it was told with a more straightforward narrative, but I think that's a tribute to the old Hollywood noirs this is trying to honor. And I don't think anyone in this other than Benicio Del Toro…