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A ★★★ review of The Shrouds (2024)
Man, tech bros won’t even let you rot in your grave without developing an app to let subscribers watch your decomposition in real time, huh? But modern technology is all about “COULD we do this” inste...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A ★★★½ review of The Legend of Ochi (2025)
The baby Ochi puppet is Baby Yoda crossed with Gizmo from “Gremlins” so we’re at peak adorableness, but “The Legend of Ochi” is a really well-made movie with beautiful scenery/cinematography and just ...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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A ★½ review of The Keep (1983)
Watch this movie and then tell me its writer/director made "Thief" and would go on to make “Manhunter,” “Last of the Mohicans,” “Heat,” “The Insider,” etc. (Yes, I know the studio butchered "The Keep"...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A ★★★★½ review of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
I don’t know what was more unsettling: the much darker, heavier, creepier, sleazier, rapey-er tone of “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” versus the TV show or the fact that there was a man who brought hi...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A ★★½ review of Trouble Every Day (2001)
Cannibalism as metaphor for all-consuming desire, or insatiable lust, or something. Has its moments but is too elliptical and underwritten to add up to much besides a couple of unsettling set pieces a...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A ★★★ review of Passenger 57 (1992)
The first “‘Die Hard’ on a Plane?” Even though it was made in 1992, “Passenger 57” is pure ’80s action cheese right down to its smoov lite jazz soundtrack. Dumb as hell but competently made and enjoya...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A ★★★★ review of The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
A body dysmorphia fairy tale. As far as revisions of old children’s stories go, “The Ugly Stepsister” beats a live-action “Snow White” remake (or “reimagining,” if you must) or four-plus hours of “Wic...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Lost Highway (1997)
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October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Warfare (2025)
One minute you’re just relaxing and watching an aerobics video with your platoon in Iraq and the next thing you know you’ve commandeered a house and there are scattered fires and severed limbs in the ...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Repo Man (1984)
I think the reason the credits scroll downward at the end of “Repo Man” is writer/director Alex Cox wants the viewer to know Cox was paying homage to “Kiss Me Deadly,” not “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” b...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Lifers: A Local H Movie (2024)
Concert film featuring the Chicago power duo Local H with interstitial behind-the-scenes vignettes throughout to create a cinéma vérité feel (even though the vignettes are scripted). Like “U2: Rattle ...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Beau Travail (1999)
If Ben Stiller and Nick Cave somehow had a baby, it’d look like Adjudant-Chef Galoup (Denis Lavant) in “Beau Travail,” aka “Pathological Self-Denial: The Movie.” Just kiss Sentain (Grégoire Colin) alr...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A ★★★★½ review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
I was certainly aware that Sandy-Duncan-as-Peter-Pan-style wires were used to assist in some of the stunts in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” but it still took me a minute to catch on that the movie...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A ★★★ review of Blade (1998)
Yeah, “Blade” is goofy supernatural comic-book action fun — any movie in which the big bad is played by tiny little Stephen Dorff obviously isn’t taking itself too seriously — but that scene where Bla...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A ★★★★ review of The Surfer (2024)
My pal Lucas sent me a link to the trailer for “The Surfer” and after watching it, I told him it gave me “Mandy” vibes and I’ve been stoked ever since. Now that I’ve actually seen it, “The Surfer” is ...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Diva (1981)
Ultra-stylish arthouse crime thriller in which opera-obsessed postal worker Jules (Frédéric Andréi) bootlegs a performance by never-recorded soprano Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez), whi...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
I always forget how much fun this thing is. Easily one of the best-paced movies ever made, “Raiders” zips along at a steady clip, one awesome set piece after another, with little moments of respite sc...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A ★★★★½ review of The Elephant Man (1980)
Maybe I’m too sensitive, but one of the reasons I dislike David Lynch’s “Eraserhead” is the way Henry (Jack Nance) treats his deformed child, which to me seems needlessly cruel. And yet in “Eraserhead...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of There Will Be Blood (2007)
Sure, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) ends up alone; an embittered, violent alcoholic, but hey, cool bowling alley. "There Will Be Blood” is the American dream in full-color 35mm, big as life and ...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A ★★★ review of Mickey 17 (2025)
Takes a while getting where it needs to go and some of the satire falls flat. I was also confused by how Mickey 17 (Robert Pattinson) was an amiable doofus while Mickey 18 (Robert Pattinson) was hosti...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Harry and Tonto (1974)
After being removed from his apartment in New York, Harry (Art Carney) and his cat Tonto (Tonto) embark on a cross-country journey. Not your typical road movie/buddy comedy, although our heroes do mak...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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A ★★★★½ review of Phantom Thread (2017)
Codependency as [spoiler] literal poison that strengthens a relationship? Don’t try this at home, kids! Yes, “Phantom Thread” is about haute couture but don’t think this is a Merchant Ivory snoozefest...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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A ★★★½ review of Black Bag (2025)
Or: Life’s a riot with spy vs. spy. “Black Bag” corrals always-appealing A-listers Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender plus a bunch of BBC regulars (and Pierce Brosnan!) for an unpretentious yet wel...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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A ★★★★★ review of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Patriarchy gonna patriarchy, amirite ladies? Carl Th. Dreyer’s take on the trial and execution of Joan of Arc mostly avoids the bulging eyes and overall mugging that makes many silent-era movies look ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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A ★★★★ review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
“I’m lookin' at your face and I just wanna smash it. I just wanna fuckin' smash it with a sledgehammer and squeeze it, you're so pretty.” How’s that for romantic? “Punch-Drunk Love” is a delightful an...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM