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Recent reviews

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  Metropolis 1927

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Jun 2023

  120 min cut

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  Le Samouraï 1967

  ★★★½ Watched 23 May 2023 1

  A movie about how Alain Delon looks in profile, the kind of hat and raincoat he wears, the silhouette he casts...that's kino baby.

Popular reviews

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  Capernaum 2018

  ★ Watched 05 Jan 2019 44

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

  Capernaum is for people who think that the ultimate function of cinema is to make you feel sympathy for fictional people, and that political cinema is cinema that makes you feel sympathy for people who are less fortunate than you. It observes, in a frame story, the tribulations of an approximately 12-year-old boy, Zain, who fails to prevent his parents from marrying off his younger sister, runs away, and manages to fend for himself before returning home. There, he stabs…

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  Anomalisa 2015

  ★ Watched 15 Dec 2015 6

  Ideas about this film I am willing to entertain:
  1. We are supposed to think of Michael Stone as an awful human being.
  2. Everyone is poorly written on purpose, that's the point. Michael can't see anyone other than as a sketch of a human being that exists in relationship to him.

  Arguments about this film I am not willing to entertain:
  1. This film has any insight or anything of significance to say about Michael, the male psyche, masculinity…