frederic_g54
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Bio: I call the big one Bitey
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| 9 90% | To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) - Rated 19 Apr 2024
"What a freakin’ incredible film, made in such a way that perhaps only Friedkin could’ve. It’s a cool, brutal and sexy crime flick that amounts to more than the sum of its parts, of which the action, omnipresent yet never irritating 80’s soundtrack and a calmly menacing and effectively evil Dafoe are its most memorable. This is also I think about as close as we’ve ever gotten to what a GTA film could and should feel like."
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| 7 57% | The Train (1964) - Rated 18 Apr 2024
"John Frankenheimer is such a baller director. With movies like Ronin, Seconds and The Train, you can literally hear studio execs go: “sounds challenging, are you sure it will work?” and him saying: “watch me..” A bit overlong but otherwise an exciting war film thanks to some great direction and Burt Lancaster in a commanding leading role."
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| 6 34% | Ikarie XB 1 (1963) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"You can’t fault the film for its ambition, but aside from some memorable images and techniques - put to better use in later classics such as 2001 and Star Wars - this isn’t particularly exciting. Some tighter direction and fewer dialogue would’ve made the film feel more like a challenging sci-fi and less like a cringey soap opera in space."
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| 8 78% | Io Capitano (2023) - Rated 09 Apr 2024
"Garrone's films have become increasingly more human with each new effort. Led by an amazing Seydou Sarr, Io Capitano sees its character undertake a dangerous journey that not only becomes increasingly challenging yet saddeningly strips its journeyers of their basic humanity with each forward step taken. It's a beautiful film despite the actual reality of the matter being anything but, with perhaps one or two questionable directorial choices without which the film would've (arguably) benefited."
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| 7 57% | Gomorra (2008) - Rated 08 Apr 2024
"(2nd viewing) Plays like a slice of Italian mobster life, so uncompromising in its realistic account of said depiction it even gets a bit boring after a while and ends up feeling less than the sum of its individual parts. Focusing on a main character as Garrone has done later in his career with Dogman would’ve rendered the experience more involving."
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| 7 57% | Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) - Rated 06 Apr 2024 |
| 5 20% | Here (2023) - Rated 02 Apr 2024
"Another boring Bas Devos movie, devoid of even the slightest sense of conflict, challenge or excitement. Can’t believe movies like these are getting financed by our tax money."
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| 6 34% | Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) - Rated 29 Mar 2024
"Never really reaches beyond its synopsis, what you see is what you get, without any kind of challenging conflict. Also paints a horrible, shallow picture of men in general. Girl has had 6 sexual partners between the age of 14 and 17 and wonders why she's pregnant."
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| 6 34% | How to Have Sex (2022) - Rated 23 Mar 2024
"Honestly shocked by the amount of praise this has received, a film whose story can be summarized as lazily as it was written: obnoxious teenage girls go on holiday, one of them is talked into what's eventually a bad sexual experience, then they fly back home. But I'm sure TikTokkers will love it."
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| 8 78% | Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978) - Rated 21 Mar 2024
"The heart of the film lies with Aurore Clément as the title character, who seems hopelessly stuck between loneliness and a search for human connection. Much like I had hoped, the film looks amazing, with great framing, clever compositions and absolutely gorgeous colours (holy Eastmancolor, Batman!). It falls somewhat apart in the final act but it's still interesting enough to give a few more films from Akerman a chance. Definitely a fascinating voice."
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