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Reviews

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  Noroît 1976

  

  Nick Newman

  The history of cinema is Charlie Chaplin fathering a daughter who stars in an experimental pirate movie directed by Jacques Rivette who would publicly disparage the highest-grossing movie of all…

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  Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

  

  Bram Ruiter

  I am diametrically opposed to whatever James Cameron thinks is good and cool but glad all of you like it so much.

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  Grown-Ups 1980

  

  sallitt

  Grown-Ups. I was expecting a gradual build-up to a big climax, but it was really funny and adept the whole way. The transitions from group to group are beautiful, and…

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  The Fabelmans 2022

  

  preston ★★★

  A 3-star movie and a 4-star movie; Spielberg gets so close - his facility with staging, pace, performances is peerless - then throws it all away as usual. (I should…

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  

  Patrick Preziosi ★★

  Call Park a formalist one more time, I fucking dare you.

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  Emily the Criminal 2022

  

  sallitt

  Emily the Criminal. (Spoilers.) The film is fascinating, and really puts forward Aubrey Plaza as a great actor: there’s no distance at all between her existence and her characterization, and…

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  My Night at Maud's 1969

  

  sallitt

  My Night at Maud’s. The scene chez Maud (53 minutes) is dazzling in every way: this time I saw it as the precursor to The Mother and the Whore in…

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  Safe 1995

  

  sallitt

  Safe. Really remarkable, with a big middle ground between the real and the symbolic, so that the disease that overtakes the heroine, and that is still worsening at film's end,…