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Reviews

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  Halloween Kills 2021

  

  Trevor Dobbin ★½

  David Gordon Green making the two worst Halloween movies makes me nostalgic for the days of cults and Busta. There are many bad Halloween sequels, but the sillier ones of…

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  Madadayo 1993

  

  Trevor Dobbin ★★★★★

  Dreams, Rhapsody in August and Madadayo are among the most gentle, caring films I've ever seen, and I'm grateful Akira Kurosawa was able to live long enough for his own…

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  Halloween Kills 2021

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★½ 4

  Back around 1986 or so when first talks about a new Michael Myers lead Halloween started, John Carpenter and Debra Hill, who still co-owned the series with producer Moustapha Akkad,…

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  Stepmom 1998

  

  Kyle Turner ★★★★

  they don't make schmaltzy middlebrow domestic dramas like they used to.

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  The Secret of NIMH 1982

  

  Sally Jane Black Sabbath 1

  We know there is more to the world than what we see.

  For so much of human history, we have told stories of worlds just out of sight. Fairies in…

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  Mulholland Drive 2001

  

  Scott Tobias ★★★★★ 5

  Writing a 20th anniversary essay on this one for Guardian this week. Exclusive Letterboxd sneak peek: I liked it more than Shrek.

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  Elvira, Mistress of the Dark 1988

  

  Alyssa Heflin

  This deals with the timeless human issue of what happens when you’re Elvira Mistress of the Dark.

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  The Secret of NIMH 1982

  

  Alyssa Heflin ★★★★½

  Feels mythic and gigantic in ways that not many American movies do. Somehow has the feel of a Miyazaki movie (minus the occasional Disney-isms like the crow), even though it…