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The Virgin Suicides 1999
A wholly feminine portrait of the mysticism surrounding five beautiful adolescent girls that killed themselves in one year.
Four young boys are in love with the Lisbon sisters, who are living under the scrutiny and protection of their domineering Catholic mother and distant and ineffectual father (Kathleen Turner and James Woods). One summer, the youngest daughter attempts suicide. We don't get specifics about her reasoning, other than her thematic and ominous response to being questioned about it: "You've never been…
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Sexy Beast 2000
As always, the arresting direction of Glazer and brilliant writing make a heist film that defies the subgenre.
Unlike heist films and the onslaught of British gangster films of the period ("Snatch", for example, which was released the same year, and "Layer Cake" four years later), the heist, crimes, and criminal aspects are minor plot convenience for larger stories about fleeing the ghosts of the past and past selves. The film could be one that frustrates fans of the heist…
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood 2022
Linklater waxing nostalgic for the 60s as a middle class suburban Houston kid.
I could not believe just how much time was dedicated to boomer recollections about how wonderful and simple and great Houston in 1960s was... it's less coming of age story and more living Life magazine articles. It's basically name dropping musicians, celebrities, TV shows, movies, and whatever Linklater could think of that he misses and loved as a kid
Even the Vietnam War, Cold War, Civil Rights,…
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Windfall 2022
"Windfall" sounds and feels like a suspense film from the 50s, but ends up having the wind taken out of its sails by a flimsy ending.
Siegel is robbing the vacant vacation home of wealthy tech mogul, Plemmons, and his wife, Collins, when they catch him in the act. Following a series of cascading mishaps, the three are stuck together longer and longer, and the threads of their lives come unravelled.
I feared that Siegel's character would be a bafoon…
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