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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 16

  Fuck, that's a perfect movie. This might truly be one of my new favorite films. Every part of it is so damn good– especially Babs and Madeleine Kahn. The car chase is one of my new favorite set pieces. Can't believe they got Ryan Reynolds to play Howard Bannister a whole 4 years before he was born, but he knocks it out of the park.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 9

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

  has any movie more explicitly and damningly NUKED *another* movie more than this one does in its final seconds? just delightful.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 12

  Just perfect. I know Judy Maxwell is quite literally a screwball character but she feels so uniquely rendered, so one-of-a-kind that it's wild Babs didn't get accolades for it. I don't feel like female stars are allowed to be unabashedly horny and silly anymore! The only move we get of them is to play those feelings as jokingly aggressive a la Leslie Jones or Melissa McCarthy. (who I love of course, but it's not the same!) Like, who could do this role nowadays? Real question. Maybe I'm forgetting people. Who you know fresher than Babs, riddle me that!!

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 4

  "propriety; noun: conformity to established standards of behavior or manner, suitability, rightness, or justice. see "etiquette."" or “you have this way of making everything sound reasonable, and then rooms begin to burn and people start to chase people.”

  one of the funniest movies i’ve ever seen and pretty incredible to see someone revive witty screwball antics and absurd silent era/cartoon gag chaos and somehow make the obviously elaborate construction of its setpieces feel so smooth and effortless. was not expecting another goated 70s ryan o’neal car chase when i cued this up and barbra is a total babe as a human looney tune. thank you peter. RIP.

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  Review by Drew Edelstein ★★★★★ 8

  Here are a few select reasons why this movie is legally the best comedy I've ever seen (no joke):

  - Screwball spirit in a New Hollywood body, so the witty comedy doesn't have to visually clutch pearls, but rather chooses to. The amount of mileage it gets from this decision is absurd.

  - Barbara Streisand doing her best Bugs Bunny impression, in a film where half the comedy is basically just live action Looney Tunes.

  - Studly man Ryan O'Neal cast against type as the biggest dork in the history of cinema.

  - A mountain of MacGuffins, with payoffs greater than you could possibly imagine.

  - A 20 minute long comic car chase through San Fransisco that cost $1 million…

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  Review by annaliese 🍯 ★★★★★ 1

  "i can fix him" says woman who is worse

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  Review by Benjamin ★★★★★ 5

  holy shit how have I never seen this I take it back I guess I like old movies! Ofcourse Babs and the whole cast are amazing but my favorite part are the bits because I love Hijinx and if I had it my way the universe would work on cartoon laws

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★

  a BLONDE academic????? suspension of disbelief only goes so far.....

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  Review by eels reels ★★★★★ 2

  judy uses what i like to call “the gilmore technique” for reeling in men in which you talk so fast that you confuse and exasperate them until they have no choice but to fall in love with you. it’s a talent i’ve been perfecting all my life but i know i’ll never be able to execute it as flawlessly as barbra streisand, and i’m ok with that. i just love watching a master at work.

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  Review by grace spelman ★★★★★ 2

  Stupidly good. Laughed so much. The goofy car chase sequence felt like a piece of art so much so that I started to get misty eyed during it bc I was like “this is so good 🥲 this is so funny 🥲” lmao. God what I would give to see this in a theater full of people.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½

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  Acutely Screwball on the surface, but rummaging around in its mechanics is a loose New Hollywood virus overtaking and causing havoc, upending expectation through stark pessimism, impending doom, and loss of innocence. So much of the classic period of the sub-genre is here - G-rated sexual banter, class intrusion, scheming side players maneuvering in and out of the main couple's narrative - and yet Peter Bogdanovich complicates its traditional verbal complexity with outlandish modernism, both in the types of spaces he chooses and how he shoots them. An extended hotel sequence, involving no less than 5 (!!) different individual rooms, countless characters, and the famous 4 identical plaid suitcases, expertly studies the nature of the McGuffin and its larger…

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  Review by Megan Bitchell ★★★★★ 1

  I know she has good pussy she’s insane