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Reviews

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  Hovering Over the Water 1986

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★★

  It is like a Raul Ruiz film kept alll of its dream logic, but keep a straightforward shape even as it imagines all those possibles lifes to be. Monteiro made…

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  Claire's Knee 1970

  

  Robert Franco

  it kinda sucks that i look like jérôme because he is undoubtedly one of the biggest pieces of shit in all of cinema lol

  discussed alongside Basic Instinct here: soundcloud.com/extendedclip/114-the-sexy-episode-featuring-a-girl

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  Bo Burnham: Inside 2021

  

  Esther Rosenfield 271

  probably the most damning thing i can say about this is that it's genuinely accomplished and impressive visually. the problem is that this is at odds with the ostensible conceit…

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  No, or the Vain Glory of Command 1990

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★★

  Manoel de Oliveira's discourse on Portuguese histoey and myth. A horrtible yet very funny movie about the self delusions of the empire. It is certainly one of the great films…

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  White Dog 1982

  

  Jake Cole ★★★★½

  Samuel Fuller tackled the subject of racism throughout his career, and something about his brutish, direct approach holds up as a surprisingly thoughtful means of addressing the complex, corrosive sin…

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  White Dog 1982

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★★★

  "Racism is a poison that is learned, but once learned that poison can never be truly banished from those it infects." - Samuel Fuller, the lion of American cinema

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  WandaVision 2021

  

  Esther Rosenfield 24

  of all the recent studio "it's about trauma" bullshit this is imo the most noxious. and that's a HIGH bar to clear but like at least midsommar didn't feature its…

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  The Manchurian Candidate 1962

  

  Filipe Furtado ★★★★½ 4

  The missing link between Orson Welles and Brian De Palma. An experimental satirical thriller about how the Hollywood apparatus produce fictions that can play sleight of hand with any kind…