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1968

★★★★★ Watched 19 Nov 2024

Jesse Armstrong should be paying this film royalties (LOL) because it is essentially Succession: 1183. It truly has the bars. It has 150 quotable lines in it, while most films struggle to have even one.

I mean: "“I’ve snapped and plotted all my life. There’s no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.”

Or: “Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re…

1986

★★★½ Watched 13 Nov 2024

Chantal Akerman’s swerve into sch-MALL-tz; I watched thinking I’d get a big boisterous musical or the saddest meditation on alienation in the time of shopping and I got both and also neither?? But I did love Robert’s pouty little tros and the fact that Lili made all her salon girlinas wear the same halter tank top in different colors; her taste!!!!

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2024

★★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2024

this is the most 90s film to ever exist in 2024… This is the sort of movie that they would discuss on an episode of Seinfeld and maybe make an entire misunderstanding kerfuffle around…it really has a Milan to Minsk energy if you know what I mean!!!  this is by no way a knock on it—in fact, this is its central charm. no matter what age or gender you are when you see this, you are a dad in a…

2024

★★½ Watched 09 Nov 2024

I agree with everyone that deploying Hugh Grant's nuclear charm in a horror direction is a...fun stunt! He's just a boy, standing in front of two girls, asking if he can kill them. The whole trick of this movie is that Nobody Could Ever Find Hugh Scary When He Is Such A Doddering Moppet and well....that's a big mistake, girls! Huge! Never believe that just because a man offers you blueberry pie he doesn't have a giant murder maze in…

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