Alon Reter
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74 79% | Totally F***ed Up (1993) - Rated 04 Aug 2011
"A pretty 90's time capsule and a general feeling of dirty flesh - TV - sheets."
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78 88% | The Tenant (1976) - Rated 22 Feb 2011
"Polanski has an impeccable sense for nauseating paranoia and subtle urban trashiness that makes his apartment trilogy both scary and funny, sickening and delightful, heartbreaking and lighthearted, and overall an astonishing, inspiring experience. (I'm writing this monologue here because The Tenant is the last film from the trilogy that I saw). This one isn't as great as Repulsion or Rosemary, but it's wonderful and dripping with kafkaesque illness. Roman is perfectly sweet and crazy."
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65 57% | Heathers (1989) - Rated 01 Mar 2011
"Oddly paced and mean spirited. I'm really not sure what to think about it. I guess I tend to fall for highschool films, but there was something depressing here. It has some sort of sociopathic/moralistic charm, though, and the style is usually great. I still liked Clueless more - it's less "dark" and extreme but the characters are actually likable and the whole thing is enjoyable, while Heathers pretty much forces you to hate everyone and everything. Yes, it includes you, Winona and Christian."
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4 2% | Religulous (2008) - Rated 10 Feb 2011
"A terrible piece of demagoguery that managed to insult even me, and I'm an atheist myself. It's possibly the most tendentious film I have ever seen, and the editor is probably the bitchiest one I have ever seen too, constantly letting Bill Maher ask a question and then cutting to a tacky-depressing clip from an old trashy technicolor film instead of letting the interviewee answer Bill's question. They somehow managed to squeeze some homophobia in, too! Woohoo!"
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89 99% | Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Rated 02 Dec 2010
"130 minutes of perfect paranoia, Mia Farrow being adorable, and one breathtaking dream sequence. Personal as mush as sitting hours next to your fever-ill friend."
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86 97% | Female Trouble (1974) - Rated 11 Dec 2010
"Incredibly imaginative! This movie is a wonderful journey through the rise and fall of a simple, innocent and ambitious girl, played by the absoloutly magnificent Divine. An epic trash masterpiece."
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70 69% | The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Rated 13 Aug 2011
"Decadence, mon amour."
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75 82% | The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - Rated 24 Dec 2010
"There is this strong emotional impact here that is at the same time depressing, magical and bad kind of bad taste. It feels painfully nostalgic even when you watch it for the first time."
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85 95% | Macumba sexual (1983) - Rated 17 Dec 2010
"Trashy and cruel, yet somehow minimalistic, it perfectly captures this whole lazy,sunlit and disturbing beach vacation mood. Heavily inspired by Roman Polanski's Repulsion (and Rosmary's baby too) but more extreme and brutal. The soundtrack is terrifying and the cinematography is great. This is definetely an effective film. When I told people about it they asked me how the director managed to make a horror film out of long detailed sex scenes - Jesus Franco does that almost perfectly here."
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