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Reviews

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  My Reputation 1946

  

  Toyiah ★★★½

  This was never on my radar but the opening credits boasted enough highlights— Barbara Stanwyck, Eve Arden, James Wong Howe, Edith Head, Max Steiner— to draw me in. What a…

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  Mandalay 1934

  

  Gentry🗡️ ★★★★ 4

  “Put on that white dress that I like so much. And on your shoulder the lotus flowers.”

  I loved this quick and dirty little WB pre-coder. A suicidal doctor going…

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  Original Cast Album: Company 1970

  

  Stuart Myerburg ★★★★

  I could watch 300 more takes from Elaine Stritch.

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  Home from the Hill 1960

  

  Remobo ★★½ 16

  One of those melodramas from the 1960's where the white folk's biggest problem is what the neighbors will think, the music swells when the chronic adulterer confesses that he still…

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  Payday 1973

  

  Yacov ★★★★

  Nobody walks like Rip Torn, and we as a society don’t talk about that enough.

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  Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives 1977

  

  Stuart Myerburg ★★★★

  This documentary was made in 1977, well before RuPaul was a public figure, and one of the interviewees says, “We’re all born naked and everything that anyone wears at any…

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  The Velvet Underground 2021

  

  John Robinson ★★★★

  Todd Haynes could have chosen a dozen different ways to go about this, but I'm more than satisfied with the particular blend he landed on. It's for the already initiated…

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  The Velvet Underground 2021

  

  Jon Walters ★★★★★

  Probably the most beautiful documentary I’ve ever seen.