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Tank Girl 1995

★★★★ Watched 15 Nov 2024

"Like Gwen Stefani with the voice of Betty Boop, [Lori Petty's] Tank Girl is the film's tuning fork, forever unserious and devilishly rebellious as she flirts, fights and fools her way through the brutal world of 2023 (chalk this up as another sci-fi film our depressing reality has somehow survived). Margot Robbie is substantially indebted to Petty's Tank Girl performance, embodying the same anarchic spirit and East Coast drawl as her now-iconic take (and now, by default, most beloved live-action…
Black Tuesday 1954

★★★★ Watched 14 Nov 2024

"Robinson played so many criminals that the 'G' central to his name might as well have stood for 'gangster', yet few would hold the same savagery as Vincent Canelli. Robinson's squat figure and grumpy face cut the perfect figure of the 'little man', and Canelli certainly has a chip on his shoulder; his incarceration on death row sees him reject morality absolutely and allows him to kill indiscriminately in the name of survival first, and greed second."
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Nosferatu 2024

★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025 2

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

At what point does a project become overcooked? Recently, it's fair to say Coppola's Megalopolis spoiled in the fridge before it even went in the oven, but there's evidence of master chefs working magic with tomes full of notes; take Scorsese and Silence, a perfect melding of seven decades of its director's Catholic guilt morphed into something wholly new and existentially invigorating. I'd count Robert Eggers as one of our modern greats, and he's been letting this one marinate for…
In a Lonely Place 1950

★★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2025

As merciless and upsetting a portrait of ego and insecurity as you'd ever find throughout all of history.

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American Psycho 2000

★★★★½ Rewatched 13 Sep 2013 86

Me: Do you like Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho?
Snooty Film Analyst: It’s OK.
Me: The later scenes are a little too abstract for my tastes, but when Bateman’s monologuing carries on throughout all 102 minutes, I think it really comes into its own, commercially and artistically. The whole film has a clear, crisp look, and an old sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives Andrzej Sekula’s cinematography a big boost. Mary Harron's been compared to…
Fifty Shades of Grey 2015

★½ Watched 14 Feb 2015 48

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