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Favorite films are first-time watches from the previous month.

Favorite films

  • The Naked Island
  • The Dante Quartet
  • To Live and Die in L.A.
  • Bicycle Thieves

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  • The Student Nurses

    ★★★½

  • The Rock

    ★★★½

  • Nine to Five

    ★★★★

  • Home

    ★★★★

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  • Home

    Home

    ★★★★

    Gerald Ballantine has just been in a car wreck requiring a long period of convalescence. His wife, for reasons that aren't quite enumerated but clearly didn't start with the crash, has moved on and moved out. The outside world seems scary and the connections he has to it seem tenuous. So he decides to sever them completely.

    Within the first ten minutes, we're already at the money shot (which is to say Gerald destroying the cash in his wallet) that…

  • The Snowshoers

    The Snowshoers

    ★★★★

    Watched this after reading a Defector piece calling this the most important sports documentary ever made. You wanna know why it’s important? It’s the first one ever to be made totally with a handheld camera! Well before Richard Leacock’s Primary and D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Now and the Maysles brothers’ Salesman, there was this short documentary about people running a snowshoe race in Quebec. And not only is it important, it’s fun and good! It’s not really about the race…

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  • The Task

    The Task

    ★★★★

    As it turns out, you don’t need the Internet to contract a classic case of internet brain worms. It’s just what happens when the topic of discourse becomes the discourse in and of itself.

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