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  Review by hugefilmguy ★★★½ 3

  Kinda like 4 brothers with Mark Wahlberg but there are 3 and they don't really like their mom and they're addicted to coke and they aren't adopted and this movie is way better.

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  Review by theironcupcake ★★★ 14

  “Once you get in this game, there ain’t no turning back.”

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  Noirvember #2

  This past weekend, I had the wonderful privilege of going to the Beacon Theatre to see The Music Critic, a performance that combines theater with live music as some of the finest classical musicians played pieces accompanied by John Malkovich reading examples of negative criticism from those composers’ lifetimes (who knew that Beethoven and Brahms were so hated?). This was the first time I’d ever seen an actor make a cameo in a stage show, for who should step out at the very beginning but Adrien Brody? He sat down at the keys as if to play before shaking his head and walking off, replaced by…

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  Review by matt lynch ★½

  This might be fun if you enjoy watching acting exercises gone rogue, but you can get a better dose of crazy out of an average Wings Hauser performance. Mostly this is rich bitch Temple absurdly, incoherently aping Ferrara, right down to the attempt at get-the-real-thing verisimilitude, which is sort of pathetic.

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  Review by ArchStanton93 ★★★★ 12

  Some of my favorite movie watching experiences from ages 13 to, I dunno, 19 or so were on IFC. The good IFC, before they had commercials and played nothing but Arrested Development re runs. There was a time where IFC played the real shit. They were always late at night, long after I should’ve been sleeping but couldn’t, caught in that hazy, ephemeral fugue state of half conscious, possibly delirious insomnia, never sure if you’re gonna wake up the next morning and everything you watched will have been a dream; I live for that shit. I miss those days and those experiences immensely. The shit I saw for the first time in that magical state is ridiculous: Bad Lieutenant, Ravenous, Blue…

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  Review by laird

  Toback throwback post Pulp Fiction crime cringe doing a do-si-do with 90s masculinity-in-crisis cringe. Somewhat elevated by Rourke's commitment to the bit and Temple's music video aesthetics. Rourke co-wrote the screenplay, credited with the pseudonym Sir Eddie Cook. I watched a lot of this through splayed fingers. They should have titled it SPLAYED FINGERS.

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  Review by Pube ★★½ 4

  I own this movie for the sole purpose of the Ted Levine scenes. I can pop this sucker in and fast forward and rewind to my heart's content, basking in the bliss from Buffalo Bill's performance. Levine's portrayal of Louis ranks there among the best of them in my book. He is so good, but unfortunately, the rest of the movie is not.

  This is sort of a crime/gang/street drama, but it lacks a clear narrative or structure. It's about revenge in some way, but that is all I really got from it. Still, this does come close to being pretty good every now and again thanks to the actors in addition to Mr. "Wait a minute, was she a…

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  Review by mosquitodragon ★★½ 2

  "All the guys in reality were just so caught up in that world that you can't ever have a strong vision for your future. And that's the dilemma of being a junkie. When you're a junkie it's like nodding out and laying on a raft on a river and dreaming about all the things you're gonna be but you never get there. So you'd rather just live in this... fucking dream world." - Bruce Rubenstein

  Mini Collab w/ Jetta

  I've been vacillating hugely about this movie since watching it. On first watch I thought it was OK, even enjoyable for some of the scenery chewing performances it contains. Then I realised upon reflection I was actually quite bored with it,…

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  Review by Eden ★★★½ 1

  hidden gem I feel like a pirate finding buried treasure argggggghhhh

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  Review by JakubM ★★★

  With that title you'd assume Bullet was some sort of 90s action vehicle. In actuality, it's a loose, digressive drama about a troubled Jewish gangster played by Mickey Rourke, as well the friends, family members, and enemies whose lives are thrown into disarray by his release from prison after an eight-year sentence. But that description doesn't quite cut it, either, since Julien Temple's direction and Rourke's script, co-written with Bruce Rubenstein, are so delirious and idiosyncratic that it always plays just a bit weirder than you'd expect. Characters have rich, detailed backstories, but very little of that information matters in the overall narrative. It skips from one thing to the next, at every step somehow both archetypal and full of…

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★½

  RIP to anyone going to see this in ‘96 expecting some wild Tupac crime yarn and getting whatever the fuck Julien Temple thought he was paying homage to (Abel Ferrara, Tarantino, Eddie Bunker!?) — honestly feels more like a bonafide Mickey Rourke vanity project, where he chews scenery while bursting into moments of violence, not that far removed from what would eventually garner him awards recognition in The Wrestler, but outside of Rourke (and Tupac, whose talents are largely wasted), this is Ted Levine’s show where he channels that inner Jame Gumb while wearing crusty old underwear and spouting conspiracy theories and, well, it’s probably the only reason to actually watch this

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  Review by S. ★★★

  It must have been very hard to advertise a film like this.

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  Review by Keenan Tamblyn ★★★

  Mickey Rourke has had one of the most inconsistent careers in Hollywood, never out of the spotlight but more often than not he's starring in garbage, he's got that leading man charm but a character actor face and doesn't always fit in the movies he's offered. Man is he a great actor though, when the cards are right and he's given a role that really suits him he can do wonders. In BULLET Rourke plays the titular character who's just been released from an 8 year stint in prison who's unfortunately reunited with a powerful drug dealer he stabbed in the eye played buy the late great Tupac Shakur (who's definitely not in enough of the movie). It's funny that…