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Reviews

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  

  Dannah ★★★★★

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  Red Desert 1964

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★★

  "I'm afraid I just won't make it. I'm scared."

  "Calm down. What are you scared of?"

  "Streets, factories, colors, people- everything"

  When all you want is to cease to exist.

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  Harlan County U.S.A. 1976

  

  emily ★★★★★

  working class people are the strongest people on earth

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  Apocalypse Now 1979

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★★★

  (Final Cut)

  The schizophrenic insanity of America's wrathful warrior mentality, with Milius' anarcho-militarism and Coppola's liberal-minded moral paralysis butting up against each other as dialectic foils that both require incineration.…

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  Phone Booth 2002

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★

  "Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring, and it could be anybody. But a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it?... Doesn't it?"

  I don't think I've seen…

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  War of the Worlds 2005

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★ 6

  I'd forgotten how LOUD this movie is. Besides that, it conformed to my recollection: the chaotic disaster sequences are viscerally staged, the characters and narrative progression are limp.

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  The Stepford Wives 1975

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★★★

  Wifing Katharine Ross would be a tempting proposition, but I wouldn't want Katharine Ross to be a wife, because domesticity is docilely imprisoning.

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  Soylent Green 1973

  

  Andrew McMahon ★★★ 2

  Pretty terrific ecological dystopia. Also too much time spent dicking around. The stars are mostly for Edward G. Robinson. I'd sign off on a remake of this under a different…