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  Being Two Isn't Easy 1962

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  So vastly different from the only other Ichikawa movie I've seen that it's hard to believe they're made from the same man - a tender, funny little slice-of-life drama with a very adorably rotund baby.

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  The House of Yes 1997

  ★★★ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  I went through all this trouble to get sane, so you can't just leave.

  Everything Parker Posey says in this movie is a revelation.

Popular reviews

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  The First Monday in May 2016

  ★★½ Watched 17 May 2016

  Let it be known that including footage of a payment dispute with Rihanna without immediately cutting to her performance of Bitch Better Have My Money was an egregious editing mistake.

  All feelings about that and the tricky cultural politics of the China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition aside, The First Monday in May is something of a beautiful failure of a documentary, one that spectacularly shortchanges each of its areas of focus by bizarrely deciding to cover them all at…

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  Godzilla 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 15 May 2014 2

  So here's the thing. One third of this movie is absolutely perfect. There's the incongruously quality cast, filled with the likes of Cranston, Binoche (of all people!), Watanabe, Strathairn and Hawkins, who round out a band of familiar but welcome old tropes - the paranoid engineer, the concerned scientists, the troubled military man.

  Then there's the perfect balance of thrilling disaster porn and deep historical foreboding (perfectly summed up in the movie's great credit sequence), which lend the proceedings their…