JSchlansky
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| 97 97% | Grave of the Fireflies (1988) - Rated 07 Dec 2024
"My first Ghibli film, and I completely understand the hype. This sways effortlessly between being cute and lovely, and being devastating and heart-rending. I was full-on weeping by the end. The dynamic between these siblings is so beautiful and endearing, and it's the nice, tranquil moments that make the heavy moments hit all the harder."
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| 87 87% | Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - Rated 06 Dec 2024
"It's astonishing that Soderbergh made this as his feature-length debut, and at such a young age. The script is so nuanced and observed with fascinating, complex characters and difficult themes expertly explored. It's also funny, well paced, and gripping — an excellent overall package."
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| 30 10% | A Real Pain (2024) - Rated 05 Dec 2024
"Manic pixie dream cousin"
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| 30 10% | Blink Twice (2024) - Rated 04 Dec 2024
"I haven't been so baffled and off-put by the editing choices in such a high-profile movie since The Woman in the Window"
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| 53 31% | Sanctuary (2023) - Rated 04 Dec 2024
"Weird film with lots of ups and downs in the quality of both the script and the more stylistic directorial flourishes. The performances remain engaging throughout, but the film ultimately kind of falls of apart by the end unfortunately"
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| 55 34% | Life is But a Dream (2022) - Rated 03 Dec 2024
"When Park Chan-wook makes a short on an iPhone, he says "fuck it" about everything else too"
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| 79 73% | Kim's Video (2023) - Rated 02 Dec 2024
"A loving tribute to the power of cinema and a thrilling investigation into a downright bizarre case of low-stakes political corruption"
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| 83 83% | The Look of Silence (2014) - Rated 02 Dec 2024
"I was a slightly worried at first that this would come off as merely leftovers from the excellent The Act of Killing, but thankfully, that's not the case. Joshua Oppenheimer takes a similar approach behind the camera, but what sets The Look of Silence apart is the addition of Adi as a sort of protagonist, who takes on a far more active voice in the doc and brings a welcome dose of confrontation to the interviews with these genocidal lunatics."
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| 93 94% | The Act of Killing (2012) - Rated 02 Dec 2024
"Consistently shocking throughout its entire runtime how brazen, proud, and gleeful these mass-murderers are as they stroll down memory lane through the ghosts of all of the people they genocided and how flagrant their recreations of their endlessly heinous crimes are. This is truly daring documentary filmmaking; I can't recall another doc I've seen where dozens of "Anonymous" fill up the entire screen during the credit crawl to protect the identities of those involved."
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| 85 85% | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) - Rated 02 Dec 2024
"A bleak yet beautiful documentary that has such a far-reaching scope while remaining grounded in Nan Goldin's perspective — what an incredible life she's led"
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