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| 86 33% | The Goonies (1985) - Rated 04 Dec 2024
"Fascinating film. What works, works so well; what doesn't, is terrible. An '80s fairy tale and sexual awakening... Archetypal. Difference that is not useful to the community will be punished. Perhaps we're still too close to the '80s ourselves; it's a messy, incoherent film, but perhaps time will help its delineations cohere. I imagine that in a couple decades this film will be seen as definitive of the '80s and subject to greater analysis (a kind of Gremlins 2), or swept into obscurity."
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| 88 44% | Colossal (2017) - Rated 14 Nov 2024
"A strange little charming film. It doesn't always work, but it does have some laughs and eventually a really dark, sobering (literally) look at abuse/recovery. Hathaway is fantastic and Sudeikis turns his schtick to true bastardy."
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| 97 89% | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (2024) - Rated 10 Nov 2024
"Four shorts with Anderson at his peak and an excellent match of sensibility with Dahl. The lengthier "Sugar" is of course the star, a great spiritual exploration and a vibrant, exciting exercise in artifice and design. "Swan" is poignant and somber moral history, "The Rat Catcher" is grim humor and perfect short story telling, and "Poison" is the most straightforward and surprising take on racism in Anderson's career."
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| 89 49% | Munich (2005) - Rated 10 Nov 2024
"Spielberg actually trying at neorealism, putting in a serious effort to explore the violence of the Israel-Palestine conflict, to show the corrosive effects of vengeance, and invert the tropes of the spy thriller (and deflate Israeli propaganda in the process- super spies they ain't.) But some jarring editing, long runtime, and melodrama make it an occasional slog. In other words, the parts are better than the whole."
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| 88 44% | Totally Killer (2023) - Rated 04 Nov 2024
"Timepass."
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| 97 89% | Deutschland im Herbst (1978) - Rated 01 Nov 2024
"Here's to you Nicola and Bart/Rest forever here in our hearts/The last and final moment is yours/That agony is your triumph."
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| 85 28% | The Family Man (2000) - Rated 25 Oct 2024
"Nick Cage and Don Cheadle hammin' it up in this shitty remake of It's A Wonderful Life. GIMME THAT CAKE."
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| 88 44% | Maya (2015) - Rated 24 Oct 2024
"Well-made, but painfully dull and slow."
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| 96 85% | The Thing from Another World (1951) - Rated 24 Oct 2024
"Exceptionally good and a rather strange film. Very different from its '80s incarnation. Besides Carpenter, we can thank this film for Alien, Stalker, Jurassic Park, etc. The enemy this time, being the peak of the Cold War, is not within, but outside, and the masculine nation mobilized to vigilance, through grit and teamwork, will defeat the foreign menace. Effeminate scientists better watch out, though they have their purposes in the nation, too. Great SFX and a bondage scene, too!"
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| 88 44% | Ratatouille (2007) - Rated 15 Oct 2024
"So overrated!"
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