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| 90 56% | Permanent Vacation (1980) - Rated 17 Apr 2024
"Painfully art school, clearly a trial run for Stranger Than Paradise, and frightening that most American cities look more bombed out today than 1980s Lower Manhattan. It has its charms and high points, though, and the struggle for the strangers in a strange land continues today."
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| 90 56% | Free Fire (2017) - Rated 05 Apr 2024
"A Tarantino knockoff with less wit and more violence. Gritty. Buoyed by strong performances, but it drags at times and is less nihilistic, more boring."
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| 95 80% | Team America: World Police (2004) - Rated 25 Mar 2024
"Goddamn it, they did it. They finally did it. Peak satire. Why even keep trying? Every stupid movie trope in every stupid movie ever rolled up into one stupid movie. The racism doesn't always play as parody, but if you don't laugh, the Terrorists Win and Harambe gets gassed."
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| 97 89% | Millennium Mambo (2001) - Rated 15 Mar 2024
"It comes together slowly. And then the snow falls in Yubari."
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| 94 75% | Past Lives (2023) - Rated 15 Mar 2024
"Painful and personal. The circumstantial chemistry of the two leads is actually the weakest part, but then again, perhaps that's the film's realest element: who can ever explain the reasons of love? What do we talk about when we talk about love... I still can't get over it all and found out too late what it all meant, how much of me there was in them...and now I'm empty...let that be a lesson?"
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| 30 1% | Dune (1984) - Rated 04 Mar 2024
"An excruciating watch and a textbook study for future filmmakers of what-not-to-do. The worst of '80s tropes, a bloated mess. Its cardinal sin is exposition. Terrible casting of good actors. Lynch seems to have saved the day with some of the set design (I assume it was Lynch.) Watch with the new Dune to fully appreciate what Villeneuve has accomplished."
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| 93 69% | Dune: Part Two (2024) - Rated 04 Mar 2024
"Flawed; very good, not great. Gorgeous/perfect first half. Hollywood strikes again, eliding controversy. Ending re the book is frankly sloppy. Crux of the problem: focuses on a straight (White) Muslim masculinity at the expense of an Arab-Berber queer feminist structuralism. Shameful given the current political climate. If it somehow aids an anti-fascist pro-Palestine revolt, one may call it a success. Still, near perfect and given the vast scope of the books, if there's more, one can forgive."
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| 95 80% | Drive-Away Dolls (2024) - Rated 27 Feb 2024
"Light, Sapphic fun and friendship on the road in fascist times. As was first stated in the groovier '70s by those fighting another fun-sucking Floridian (Anita Bryant), "A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine.""
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| 94 75% | WarGames (1983) - Rated 13 Feb 2024
"Ahead of its time in its depictions of computers and a grim reminder of the stupidity of nuclear weapons."
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| 94 75% | La montaña (2023) - Rated 10 Feb 2024
""The world is a lot bigger place than people think.""
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