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  Enemy of the State 1998

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Misha Beattie 22 Jan 2022

  Enhance.

  “You know, this is very irritating. Get one channel and stay with it.” That’s how you talk to children.

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  In the Heat of the Night 1967

  ★★★★ Rewatched by Misha Beattie 20 Jan 2022

  Looks incredible. Haskell Wexler and Norman Jewison doing work with those shot compositions, particularly with the nighttime lighting and framing. That opening credits shot down the street with the railroad crossing in the foreground, the streetlights cutting through the night and the pops of fuzzy, yet somehow distinct, color. Fuck.

  Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger are really propping up a thin story. This movie couldn’t be less interested in its mystery and the narrative gets tedious with Gillespie’s schizophrenic rejection/embrace/rejection…

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  The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992

  ★★★★ Watched by Misha Beattie 24 Nov 2021 5

  Lacks the eroticism of the other films

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  The Last Duel 2021

  ★★★★ Watched by Misha Beattie 16 Jan 2022

  “I will sue! I will sue you for this!”

  Good courtroom drama. The Last Duel is focused on the subjectivity of truth rather than one objective truth. Each account describes or depicts rape; no one is lying in this movie, so the Last Duel isn’t about the truth or revealing the true account. In his own account, Le Gris — despite seeing Comer run away from him, hearing her repeatedly say “no,” seeing her cry and resist while forcing her down…