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Reviews

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  Babylon 2022

  

  Carlos Valladares ★★★★★ 14

  "I'm just not very good for you..."

  Or: Vincente Minnelli Jr.'s 3 Hours in Another Town ...

  "I knew Proust, you know..."

  (UPDATE: Dec 30, 2022: I’ve consolidated my two…

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  The Bishop's Wife 1947

  

  theriverjordan ★★★★ 24

  Cary Grant walking into one’s life is bound to solve several problems of the soul. Cary Grant as an angel walking into one’s life? Instant peace on earth and goodwill…

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  Les Carabiniers 1963

  

  theriverjordan ★★★½ 27

  The folly of war turns into the follies of man in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Les Carabiniers.” 

  That Godard’s intentionally shabby no budget satire should release the same year as his ambitious…

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  

  josh lewis ★★★★ 6

  way funnier than i was expecting, in part because it takes its noir femme fatale gf/hitchcockian obsessed man bf dynamic completely emotionally seriously but in order to sustain it on…

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  The Bridges of Madison County 1995

  

  Cinema Language ★★★★★

  Gets better each time. Turned a bad day into a very good one. It sounds hyperbolic, but I’m grateful this film exists. Simply magical.

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  Three Colors: Red 1994

  

  Carlos Valladares ★★★★★

  Now THAT’S what I call life! What is it about network movies about lack and longing and missed opportunities that brings out the best in humans…an unraveling mystery for me.…

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  Stavisky... 1974

  

  Carlos Valladares ★★½ 1

  Beastly boring. The first outright mediocre Resnais I’ve found: he’s going for Lubitschian melancholy and a “plus ça change” resigned splendour, I guess, but it’s so static, it just lies…

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  Paris Belongs to Us 1961

  

  theriverjordan ★★★½ 25

  “Paris Belongs to Us,” the first full length work by Jacques Rivette, is an answer key to much of the director’s later filmography. It is, though, an answer written in…