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  The Store 1983

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Aug 2023

  A company run by a secular Jewish CEO, lauded for his “unpopular” views (pro-racial integration) during the McCarthy era, manages to conjure a Christmastime so garishly blinged out, blonde, and Texan that middle management warns subordinates to avoid the meat display resembling a New York delicatessen lest the “wrong people” start showing up. The “right” people, meanwhile, chain smoke their way across a spectrum from preening and pushy to straight up delusional: the loopiest lady wants to wear only the…

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  Belly 1998

  ★★★★ Rewatched 06 Aug 2023

  Everything (lighting, architecture, dancers, jackets, Devil’s Pie, etc.) takes on a sinister liquid quality. All that and a Sean Paul cameo, just for me

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  Supermarket Woman 1996

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2023

  Surprised in equal measure by (1) the end-of-history-style plea for technocratic assembly lines as a humane upgrade from artisanal guilds and (2) the sickest truck I have ever seen. That thing has a chandelier inside!

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  Remotely Controlled Foaming Van 1975

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Jan 2023

  ‘Both vehicles end up buried in foam’ is right

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