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Reviews

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  Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters 2006

  

  will

  this is like if reza negarestani was a pioneering japanese filmmaker who also had the humor of the pynchon variety, perhaps closer actually to morimi's tatami galaxy and the eccentric…

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  The Story of Yanagawa's Canals 1987

  

  Evan “Kaizō Haya-shill” Pincus ★★★★★ 2

  Many here on Letterboxd dot com seem to think that the subject matter is “not interesting.” Have they considered that they may be the ones who are not interesting?

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  The Story of Yanagawa's Canals 1987

  

  matt lynch ★★★★ 1

  immersive, meditative, occasionally quite technical, endlessly fascinating document of an intertwined economic and environmental microsystem, describing not just the practical function of the canals but their historical and social significance,…

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  

  Ewan ★★★★★

  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi as undoubtedly become one of my favourite directors. He has an incredibly magical approach to the way he explores relationships and his films are somehow simultaneously very human…

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  The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 1954

  

  Grandt from Savages ★★★

  This is the logical conclusion of all the old tripping editing techniques at the dawn of film.

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  The Northman 2022

  

  ruggles ★★★

  Even if Eggers wasn't involved I'd still have shown up just for Björk.

  It was good. I liked it. A thoroughly engaging few hours, but leaving the theater I felt…

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  Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2022

  

  whis ★★★½

  To the people in my theatre who kept clapping every time anything of note happened: the joke stopped being funny when you clapped at eggman flossing

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  Millennium Actress 2001

  

  whis ★★★½

  Satoshi Kon’s movies were too confusing so he made a movie with Timon and Pumba-esque side characters to be confused with you