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Reviews

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  Black Cat, White Cat 1998

  

  Andrew Ford ★★★★

  Zany in an acutely late-90s sense, this is my first encounter with Emir Kusturica's work and it certainly won't be my last. When it doesn't lean into outright absurdity (and…

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  Odd Man Out 1947

  

  Jeremiah

  A densely layered noirish tale of redemption & sacrifice. Reed & DP Krasker visualizes a man's descent into purgatory. Mason spends the movie always just out of the reach of mercy. Rife…

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  Hounded 2022

  

  Stotty ★★

  I know that the starrier supporting cast is more marketable, but it still seems more than a little bit dodgy that the film's stars don't have their names or faces…

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  Mad Max 2 1981

  

  laelito ★★★★½

  The kind of wildly inventive, blisteringly fun, white-knuckle feast for the senses that everyone not named George Miller just cannot seem to make anymore; listen to the roar of the last of…

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  All the President's Men 1976

  

  Alexander Wood ★★★★½

  You know that overused idiom, "blah blah walked so blah blah blah could run"? Well, it doesn't apply, here. The correct turn of phrase would be more akin to, "ALL…

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  PlayTime 1967

  

  Fint ★★★★★ 4

  Visually complex and comedically audacious, Tati's masterpiece is a feast for the eyeballs, its frame packed tight with incident and detail. Design exemplary, camera placement adroit, observation exquisite.

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  Brideshead Revisited 2008

  

  Richmond_Hill ★★ 2

  Comparisons are invidious. But since this film seeks them, I’ll make them. 

  This isn’t an adaptation of Evelyn’s Waugh’s novel. It’s a remake of a production still of Jeremy Irons…

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  The Assassination Bureau 1969

  

  mrbalihai ★★★½ 4

  Can't you talk anything but shop? I've almost been killed here!

  I don't know about you, but I definitely didn't have "Wacky Sixties Comedy About Political Murders" on my 2023…