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The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A butchered masterpiece. But a masterpiece nonetheless. It’s absurd to me how they cut almost an hour out of the film and yet it’s still so strong. All of the technical and artistic elements really come together in such a perfect way that it really makes it apparent just how utter dog shit the reshot ending is: bad dialogue, boring camera angles, shallow cheap sets, awkward performances; an artistically hollow ‘happy’ ending.
Its juxtaposition to the last scene with Michael…
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The Maltese Falcon 1941
The poster makes it look like Bogart has deatached Rayman hands, like he's some kind of playable character in a VR game.
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Babygirl 2024
Babygirl is film whose (online) reception suffers from unfulfilled expectations from its audience. No, this film does not have taboo-breaking daring sex scenes. And no, this is not an explicit radical feminist film, nor is Romy (Nicole Kidman) a feminist icon.
But I don't think the movie is trying to do or be any of those things. This is quite simply a deeply personal film about Romy, a career-driven woman who rose to the top, has a perfect life and…
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The Last Island 1990
In Marleen Gorris’ first two films (De stilte rond Christine M & Gebroken spiegels) there is a clear plot, but the film doesn’t seem to be so preoccupied with it. Most scenes and dialogue exchanges also double for more broader societal critiques of misogyny and patriarchy. The actual plot development then is less important than the film’s development of its message and critique. In The Last Island, most interactions are harder to read more broadly, they seem very tied down to…
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976
There's a scene in the film where Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and Sigmund Freud find themselves trapped inside of a barn. Then 6 white horses come into the barn and Watson exclaims: "They are just horses." To which Freud replies: "They're not just horses. They're the most intelligent horses in the world, and they've been trained to kill!"
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