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The Bikeriders 2023
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Not entirely sure how I feel about this – a sentiment shared by the two people who watched it with me. I’ll inevitably echo their comments in this review.
The movie maintained my interest the whole time, despite me never having found motorcycle gangs particularly interesting. I watched entirely for the cast (Comer, Hardy, Shannon, Herriman – I didn’t and don’t really care about Butler), and they gave solid, fun-to-watch performances.
The choice to center Comer’s character Kathy as narrator…
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014
Beautifully shot. I quite like the slow pace and overall ambiguity. One to ruminate on. I’ll definitely revisit it.
This is a hard one to rate numerically. I expect the rating may climb upon subsequent viewings.
Great soundtrack, by the way.
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The Substance 2024
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This movie broadly accomplished what it set out to do, but I have mixed feelings about it. I can appreciate the bold, expressionistic style it went for, and the fact that it being unpleasant to watch was intentional, but I found myself wishing for a bit more…subtlety? I’m not sure exactly.
Some of the visual references (The Shining in particular, but also The Fly and even to an extent The Picture of Dorian Gray) feel a bit scattered and only…
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Murdering the Devil 1970
An odd, beautifully composed little movie. The music is still stuck in my head hours later. Jirina Bohdalová gives an enchanting performance, and the visuals and set design are really unique. The ending is rather abrupt and out of left field, but contains the funniest sound editing moment in the movie. Glad I was able to catch a screening of it remastered.
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