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  Sudden Death 1995

  ★★½ Watched 29 Jan 2023

  More protracted than sudden. When the best praise everyone has to offer is “workmanlike,” and their enthusiasm is centered around one scene (admittedly a pretty good one), read between the lines: Somehow, it’s all mostly — mostly! — too serious and a little bit boring.

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  Infinity Pool 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2023

  Crimes of the future.

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  Polyester 1981

  Watched 30 Sep 2015 5

  Me: "You know, we've been dating six weeks, and except for one all the movies we've seen together have been John Waters movies."

  Him: "I don't see the problem."

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  Suburbia 1983

  Watched 28 Feb 2013 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Bizarre to see folks dismiss the morality of the movie as one-sided (e.g. Wil Forbis sez "punks = good; everyone else = bad") when a girl has her clothes torn off by her punk peers at a concert, or one of our young protagonists is drugged, or Chris Pedersen's character complains repeatedly that his step-dad is black. Instead, what Suburbia does is effectively demonstrate the obvious but frequently unacknowledged notion that society is constructed to give the benefit of the…