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Reviews

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  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989

  

  Joe ★★★★ 2

  This is Chevy Chase's Chaplin film, as he seeks to turn Clark Griswold from a bumbling buffoon to a bumbling buffoon who we ~~care about~~ (just watch the sequence with…

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  The Company of Strangers 1990

  

  Sally Jane Black 7

  I need not harp on the prevailing depictions of the elderly in modern media. Suffice it to say that this film defies them with every fiber of its celluloid being.…

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  Passing 2021

  

  Nick Vass ★★★½

  Highly evocative for about two reels (up to the point where Reenie leaves Clare's home) until it straddles on less admissible ground. That said, I really loved the opener in…

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  Prisoners of the Ghostland 2021

  

  matt lynch ★★½ 1

  The natural destination for boring Nic Cage meme-heads and equally boring gonzo cinema adherents would have to be this watered-down piece of only-relative weirdness. Reliably for Sono it brings up…

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  Fear Street: 1666 2021

  

  aliyah ★★★★★ 24

  maybe the real horror was the exploitation of the working class and the villainisation of marginalised peoples

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  Come True 2020

  

  ALMA ★★★★

  But the other thing that went through all the movies I enjoyed, was this ending that would leave you a little disoriented. David Mamet did it a lot. Even some…

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  Lovers Rock 2020

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★½ 1

  Like a riff on Olivier Assayas's Cold Water, Lovers Rock is a work of escapism in which a house party and a meticulously selected soundtrack create a bubble of sensual…

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  Possessor 2020

  

  josh lewis ★★★★ 13

  ever felt like your job is intrusive, alienating and tearing you and your loved ones apart? or that your mind and body are just another tool in our corporate hellscape?…