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  Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025

  ★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  presents it's nutcase conspiracy theories with all the coyness of an 1800s Southern debutante. probably because they make no sense at all? even Errol admits it onscreen.

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  The Last Showgirl 2024

  ★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Sure, it’d be cool if Pamela Anderson had a Norma Desmond-type role and blew everybody’s tits off with her talent, but this film ain’t doing her any favors. Her performance is endearing, yes, yet also wildly uneven and bogged down by terrible writing. A lot of shots of her leaning on walls and windows and fences, smoking or just looking lost, instead of situations that actually bring complexity to the character. Or maybe the point is that she lacks complexity?…

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  The Dreamers 2003

  ★★★★ Added

  "The street came flying into the room!" Isabelle screams and, just like the window, my love for this movie broke. I guess it's something of a strange triumph that Bertolucci makes the viewers so comfortable with Isa and Theo's world that, when we finally have to leave, something feels off. An ending is often what makes or breaks a picture and this one left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I was prepared to dismiss the entire film…

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  Woman Is the Future of Man 2004

  ★★★★ Added

  One man's dignity is slowly chipped away during the course of two days of drinking. Hong Sang-soo knows that in life there's rarely a moment of clear realization, just an accumulation of events that make you hate yourself a little bit more every day. The male characters are both children, hiding deep insecurities underneath pseudo-intellectualism and academic prestige. "Believing in nothing is not something to be proud of," a young student says. "How else can you be happy?" asks the protagonist.

  There is truthness in this film. Nothing but well-composed (notice his use of visual rhythm) conversations. Rohmer would be proud.

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