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Recent reviews

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  Tough Guys Don't Dance 1987

  ½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  A complete and total abomination where the only enjoyment to be found is in a pure point and laugh kind of way. Some of the most atrocious dialogue and delivery of said dialogue I have ever seen. Would near badsterpiece tier if the pacing didn’t turn into a total slog and the blatant homophobia didn’t kill any laughter you can muster along the way. Both completely exhausting and devoid of any meaningful point.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Can already tell this will be one of the most underrated films of the year. Sexy people who are given the rare opportunity through dense and sexy dialogue to feel as intelligent as the movie wants you to believe they are. 94 minutes of chatty calibration that crowns acts of service as the most slyly tantalizing love language cinema can conjure. Fassbender and Blanchett are of course eating this up, but wanted to shout out Marisa Abela who brings a real emotional resonance to a film that would risk being too cold without her and delivers some of the film’s best lines.

Popular reviews

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  Thoroughbreds 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 19 Feb 2018

  No question this film will become a cult classic! Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke give the best performances of their career in this twistedly hilarious and oddly emotional tale of two rich teenage girls in suburban Connecticut as they plot a vengeful murder. Cory Finley has made Heathers proud with his confident story that is sure to have people talking the rest of the year! March 9th cannot come fast enough!

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  Black Bear 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 05 Feb 2020

  Saying Black Bear is a mind-bending, razor-sharp trip into the consciousness of a broken artist would be a disservice to this tightrope walk of a picture. Aubrey Plaza stars as Allison, an unreadable director who doesn’t follow the boundaries between being polite and honest. She lives in her own world, but seems gracious to pretend to be in others. And this world by the midway point fractures like a shattered mirror where everything reflects and cuts off itself. In Act…