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Reviews

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  An American Tragedy 1931

  

  Jacob Neff ★★★

  Clear talent behind the camera, and a nice performance from Sylvia Sidney. Phillips Holmes only ever having that same dour look on his face made it that much more frustrating…

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  The Hudsucker Proxy 1994

  

  Stephen Hyland ★★★★★ 1

  Call me a schmo, a jerk, an imbecile, but I think this motion picture is genius and one of the Coen’s finest. I’ll stake my Pulitzer on it.

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  Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

  

  Stephen Hyland ★★ 2

  It brings me no pleasure to report that Sam Raimi has officially become a director-for-hire. In this case he was hired because Marvel needed spooky stuff, and thus he was…

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  The Witch 2015

  

  Sonny Bunch ★★★★½ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

  

  Jacob Neff ★★★★½

  Through stunningly beautiful cinematography and deeply introspective monologue--both internal and external--and dialogue, tragedy begets tragedy as we come to intimately know a Frenchwoman who far from home is caught up…

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  Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959

  

  Victor Morton ★½

  HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France, 1959) 3

  I thought this movie was terrible — the sort of po-faced (but hollow) self-important twaddle that gives art movies a bad name…

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  International House 1933

  

  RetroHound ★★★½

  If Grand Hotel was a comedy. And set in China. The town is named Wu-Hu. When W. C. Fields lands his plane and asks if this is Kansas City, Kansas…

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  Tobacco Road 1941

  

  Cool Hand Max ♊🏺 ★★½

  The Grapes of Wrath meets... Jerry Lewis? I frankly haven't the faintest clue on how to begin to critique this. At times it comes across like a folksy parody of…