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Reviews

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  Macbeth 2001

  

  Mike Kennedy ★★★★½ 2

  I had heard reports of Gregory Doran’s Royal Shakespeare Company production which had a sold out season at Stratford’s Swan Theatre in 1999 and then toured to London and the…

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  Never Let Me Go 2010

  

  Krommedijk ★★★★

  When I heard that Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I felt euphoric. It was just the right thing to do at just the right time. Ishiguro is…

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  Body and Soul 1925

  

  Jack Barry ★★★★

  My favorite of three I’ve seen so far from Oscar Micheaux, the first great black American film-maker. This one is Classic.

  Paul Robeson, only 27 years old here, is all…

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  Merrily We Live 1938

  

  sakana1 ★★½ 5

  Uh, spoilers ahead for both this and My Man Godfrey.

  Listen, I know it's silly to put too much time and energy into a tiny throwaway Depression subgenre. BUT.

  It's…

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  West Side Story 2021

  

  Fabian ★★★★

  A point of doubt with many modern remakes is the necessity of producing yet another version of the original story. Defending arguments often boil down to updating an outdated concept…

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  Moonrise 1948

  

  theriverjordan ★★★½ 14

  Villainy is moonlight in Frank Borzage’s “Moonrise.”  

  A work both sentimental and sharp; Republic Pictures - purveyor of Westerns and B noirs - picked “Moonrise” as the moment to…

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  Repulsion 1965

  

  chavel ★★★★★ 5

  “Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.” – Director Roman Polanski

  Hypnotic cinema when watched in the dark. Roman Polanski’s Repulsion is a masterpiece of psychological…

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  Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948

  

  jrhovind ★★★★½

  “I came to tell you about us, to offer you my life. But you don’t even remember me.” Reckless passion in fin-de-siècle Vienna, a place Ophüls constructs as a sort…