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Basic Instinct 1992

★★★★ Rewatched 24 Sep 2024

One of the triumphs of the 80s/90s wave of neonoir, Basic Instinct turms Vertigo inside out -- a man tricks himself into seeing two women where there is only one. Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell is one of of the genre's best femme fatales, a woman so all-consumingly hot that you would not only die for her but let her kill you, not a cipher as in Vertigo, but nevertheless utterly inscrutable. it's funny to read the movie condemned for its…
Blink Twice 2024

★★½ Watched 24 Sep 2024 1

Can't say I was a big fan of this. The three leads were great, and I really like how the montages in the second act play with film convention -- movies use them to compress time, leaving the watcher to infer what happens in the cuts -- Kravitz and her editor Kathyrn J. Schubert here use montage to represent the subjective experience of the female partiers: what happens in the cuts is a mystery to them too, and they don't…

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Ponyo 2008

★★★★ Rewatched 28 Jul 2019 7

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019

★★ Watched 20 Dec 2019 6

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

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