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  In Front of Your Face 2021

  ★★★ Watched by Gabriel Anderson 22 May 2022

  Tilted positive almost entirely on the basis of the voicemail scene.

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  This Much I Know to Be True 2022

  ★★★★½ Watched by Gabriel Anderson 15 May 2022 3

  Even after having seen the tour whose preparation takes up the bulk of this film, it serves as a perfect sequel to both One More Time With Feeling and Idiot Prayer. Nick Cave Cinematic Universe stays undefeated.

Popular reviews

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★★★★ Watched by Gabriel Anderson 10 Nov 2021 3

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

  To think I was actively prepared that I might hate this….and yet, it is basically* perfect, and might ultimately prove to be my favorite coming of age film, full stop. It’s everything I love about PTA - an explosion of culture, history, politics, and the deepest of intimacy. Emotionally messy, shaggy in the name of character, and with more blood in its veins than anything else I’ll see this year. The kind of movie that can just floor you equally…

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  First Man 2018

  ★ Watched by Gabriel Anderson 08 Oct 2018 2

  I hated so many things about this, but I feel I should at least commend the general aesthetic chaos of the flight sequences: a mostly impressionistic series of underlit handheld closeups which highlights the physical toll on the human body, and also the fact that this technology - while being at the forefront of human achievement - never seems to be quite as secure as one would hope.

  Having said that, the motif wears out almost immediately because Chazelle shoots…