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Reviews

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  Fireworks 1947

  

  Will Sloan

  Out of the Past. Monsieur Verdoux. Nightmare Alley. King Size Canary. Lady from Shanghai. Fireworks. Lot of interesting tremors being felt on the edges of American cinema in 1947.

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  Magic Mike's Last Dance 2023

  

  HalfEmpty ★★★

  I'm not sure exactly what I mean by this, but Magic Mike's Last Dance feels like an HBO Max movie. When I watched No Sudden Move and KIMI on my…

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  Showing Up 2022

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★ 1

  Michelle Williams reacting to things is a great film genre. We don't get many movies about creative labor and compromises behind it (as opposite to movies about creation as an…

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  The Prestige 2006

  

  I.V. ★★★★½ 3

  There’s basically nothing here except themes (doubling, self-destruction, life as performance, etc.), but they’re treated so literally that the result ends up pushing the film into the category of the…

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  Interstellar 2014

  

  Filipe Furtado 2

  The thing that makes me always come back to Nolan films despite their awfulness is the mystery of how someone can be so obsessed with so many things that interest…

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  Night Moves 2013

  

  Rick Burin ★★★★ 2

  A spare, sad eco-thriller about three quiet fanatics planning to blow up a hydroelectric dam. Like Melville’s Army of Shadows (or the Labour Party in the 1980s), its characters are…

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  Some Came Running 1958

  

  Silence Dogood ★★★★★

  Some Came Running has a wonderful score, and is for my money the best color film ever (after The Red Shoes). Shirley MacLaine creates one of my very favorite characters, and the…

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  On the Run 1988

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★ 3

  One of the more fascinating little mini-generic cycles in Hong Kong cinema was when in the late 80s, following the success of A Better Tomorrow and City on Fire, folks…