film
Train to Busan (2016) Yeon Sang-ho
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South Korean desire to make a new zombie flick, but improve it on the realistic, social and emotional scale.
They just have to win everthing.
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American Pie (1999) – Paul Weitz
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The inevitable coming-out-of-(teen)age story for the millennial male generation. Filled with stereotypes to empathize with and nostalgic one-liners to never forget.
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Le Louxor / Palais du CinΓ©ma – Paris, FR
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A temple-like structure in a busy street, drawing the egypt geekβs attention. Step inside and follow the pyramidal descent into chambers of pharaocious entertainment.
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Cure (1997) – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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Subtly striving for the viewer’s attention is rewarded with hypnotic disturbing discomfort.
This film creates a unique chemistry of sound and silence, control and terror.
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Spotlight (2015) – Tom McCarthy
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Polished but razorsharp Β journalism warfare of a fresh millennium; digging for (un)holy truths of untouchable legacies.
A documentary-like disclosure featuring actors vanishing in spotlight.
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Arizona Dream (1993) – Emir Kusturica
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Vincentβs natural performance gallantly steals an already stolen picture show navigated by a loud but warm director who makes the whole thing fly just right.
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Good Time (2017) – Benny Safdie, John Safdie
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Tainted shades flutter through this NY-based fever dream, filled with real people in realistic situations, doing the best and the worst for each other.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) – Dan Kwan
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With a completely incomprehensible and visual-demanding plot itβs easy to look stunning nowadays.
But nailing it with a well, bagel-circular story is rare.
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The Northman (2022) Robert Eggers
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Balancing historically accurate brutality and well-rounded storytelling, this feast pushes its narrative of avenging men and succumbing women right into viewerβs eyes and guts.
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Blue Jay (2016) Alex Lehmann
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A soft exploration of nostalgia which turns into intoxicating, soul seeking frustration.
The black and white approach lets you see and feel in synesthetic ways.
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Trees Lounge (1996) – Steve Buscemi
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Likeable round around BuscemiΒ΄s past featuring family and settings no one would object to watch other than a certain female interest that feels uncomfortably young.
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Crimson Tide (1995) – Tony Scott
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Locked in a claustrophobic tea kettle, witnessing the boiling point of seasoned people pushing their morals against each other.
Hackman & Washington in superb opposition.
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The Rum Diary (2011) – Bruce Robinson
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Although preceded by a promising start, the problem springs up in the hollow-middle by scattering nothing around other than fun for the people involved.
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Don’t Look Up (2021) – Adam McKay
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Long-winded screw-eightball of a dark & daring political comedy for the news-aware long-attention spanner du jour expansively mirroring 1976Β΄s “Network” efforts.
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Lou – Fight Club (1999)
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He’ll sock it to you like a bag of alkaline Christmas chimney bricks that used to be sweet but now burn through charm and bone.
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The Loved One (1965) – Tony Richardson
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Smack in the stiff middle of the 1960Β΄s cerebral courtesy: a sunny-dark comedy of the black & whitest kind adorned and embalmed with Liberace.
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To Rome with Love (2012) – Woody Allen
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Brass-balled Baldwin articulates the angry voice of reason coming from a late self-awareness that reflects the present with polished regret and self-derision.
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Marie Antoinette (2006) – Sofia Coppola
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Firmly cushioned in the eye candy of the revolutionary stormβadorned with a Rock & Rococo soundtrack that invisibly frames the perfect portrait of unawareness.
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Salininui Chueok (2003) – Bong Joon Ho
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Chest-kicking serial-crime kill-Thriller
of breathtaking simplicity and murky south-Korean self-deprecation finding grace in pratfalls and humor of the crassest kind.
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The Wasps Are Here (1978) Darmasena Pathiraja
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Intriguing community-building affairs vaunted with a cozily speckled beach vibe.
But stripped naked by bland emotional acting and suggestively fading ties at the end.
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I Saw The Devil (2010) – Kim Jee-woon
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A refreshing but maniacally twisted tale of becoming the predator of what lurks in the nightβs shadow.
Where does vengeance end, where does malevolence begin?
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THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS (1993) – BILLIE AUGUST
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Creeping historical βhaciendaβ-ascension story full of good people playing uglier-than-fiction roles to cherry things on top of sourly majestic interior/exterior shots.
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The Chaser (2008) – Na Hong-jin
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A suspenseful gatekeeper for Seoulβs crime rabbit hole – with a dynamic that is second to none.
Unconventional and arrogant necessities clear the path to deliverance.
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Memories of Murder (2003) – Bong Joon Ho
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Macabre true crime mixed with hilarious character representation?
This richly detailed and beautifully crafted closer look of 20thβs centuryβs korean detective work pulls it off.
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THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) – ALEJANDRO JORODOWSKY
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Complex messianic circle jerk that transgressively fortune-wheels its dark-hippy nonsensical beauty around bringing its victims to a profound world of shit and cum.
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Almost Famous (2000) – Cameron Crowe
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Grounded with emotional veracity in the most vocal point of feud with the Death of everything that was holy and pure to rock and roll.
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Go (1999) – Doug Liman
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Influenced by βPulp Fictionβ and early Kevin Smith Β genius, this film belongs to the 90s feelgood-underground pantheon.
A fast burn with warm narcotic release.
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U Turn (1997) – Oliver Stone
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A big booty in the desert magnetically pulls sore strangers and their dry behavioural rage together to visit the normally closed off parts of hell.
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This Must Be the Place (2011) – Paolo Sorrentino
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Despite sugar visuals and good Penn-manship this film strays all over the place with those unafraid to fly over an ocean of scrambled plots.
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Se7en (1995) – David Fincher
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Tall, biblical thriller that out-of-the-box polishes and replenishes audiovisual standards up to a stern point of absurdity where nothing ends before pain.
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Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
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“Morbid self-attention” won’t get you to revenge the world against whatβs wrongly dark and seldom slightly right. “Donβt you want to make it, mister?”
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Oldboy (2003) – Chan-wook Park
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Complex hard-watch that feels like a nightmare Sake bar-brawl-beating loop with a heart-kicking pace that punches holes into every moral direction.
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The Bourne Identity (2002) – Doug Liman
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A headhunt through early 2000βs Europe, which shines in a blue-grey velocity and shows how good a minimalistic & realistic action movie can be.
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Basic Instincts (1992) – Paul Verhoeven
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Classiest porn noir of the century with a truly horny Douglas who keeps the viewer interested after manually climaxing for the first couple of times.
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Million Dollar Hotel (2000) – Wim Wenders
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A roman candle of crazy characters (most of which are no doubt stolen from nearby realities) in an overwrought romanticised dark comedy by bonehead Bono.
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Robert Paulsen – The Fight Club (1999)
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His name is Robert Paulsen and his tits are not as large as his wounded heart which bleeds loud & clear like testicular cancer does.
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Uncut Gems (2019) – Benny & Josh Safdie
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002) meets the Lincoln Lawyer (2011) with a pure Sandler as main stressing agent in a beautifully acted display of ugly characters.
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Rushmore (1998) – Wes Anderson
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Strongly-subtle dark comedy that can for days on end make one consistently laugh out loud at punch-line silences that stitch to the mind.
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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Family values suffer
In this Passion Play
Powered by music,
Coal, OIL, & palms
Greased by multiple
PiecesΒ of silver.
Lewis triumphs in
Self-crucifixion.
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Basquiat (1996) – Julian Schnabel
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Talent-heavy (cast-wise) downer about a man who erases his own by hiding behind an embalming hype that far outlasts its allotted 15 minutes.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – Stanley Kubrick
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Benchmark trip from a fantastic audio-visual realm that does not really clarify the slowly rotating RubikΒ΄s Cube storyline that’s space-cold and trauma-like.
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The Virgin Suicides (1999) – Sofia Coppola
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A clandestine teenage brothel run by hard loving parents who keep basking in GodΒ΄s rain right where the moral crater seems to bleed the most.
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About Schmidt (2002) – Alexander Payne
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First:
Watch NO SOUND
(just subtitles).
Next:
Watch w/ voices
(& excellent musical βcommentaryβ).
This delivers Nicholsonβs
βLear/Quixoteβ
As SUPREME
(Max Sennett)
TRAGI-COMEDY.
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Mank (2020) – David Fincher
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Single most black & white modern period-film exquisitely monkey-grinding the royal Randolph hemp out of us with Reznor-sharp reel-changing monochromatic flair.
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The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – Stephen Hopkins
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Geoffrey Rushes his
Portayal of Proteus
Both amusing
And annihilating all
Significant others
(especially mothers),
But never
Pleased!
(Based-on book)
Donβt skip
Audio Commentaries!
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Not even partially dubious casting could jinx this blood-ruby of classy kitschβcarved out of morbid fascination and respect for the franchiseΒ΄s original outputs.
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The Graduate (1968) – Mike Nichols
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With youth one can hide from adulthood either by extending it or revisiting…but to escape it entirely, however: one has to try much harder.
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Bronson (2008) – Nicolas Winding Refn
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Precious stone of modern independent cinema and character study “par excellence.” Hysterical, ballistic and mordantly fulminant. A truly stimulating example for period-films to come.
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Lords of Dogtown (2005) – Catherine Hardwicke
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The original sparks that supernova-ed a whole industry that ludicrously although successfully reinvented both the wheel and how to become a music-free rockstar.
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Hospital Hallway Scene – The Exorcist III (1990)
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Fast zoom accompanied by a silence-piercing musical sting hits like a battering ram and leaves your heart throbbing in horrific awe.
Jump-scare masterclass.
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One Hour Photo (2002) – Mark Romanek
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Uneventful eye-thriller meant to box-office fail despite helpful bad intentions. A film about film itself that looks immaculate but does not communicate well.
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Mid90s (2018) – Jonah Hill
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Profound motion picture of short stature that proves itself large by showing with stunning, sympathetic sharpness how a pre-adolescent masochist jumps into intentional idiocy.
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Hereditary (2018) – Ari Aster
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Childhood-scary, sating and harrowingly haunting. It bends the mind in all directions while stiffing the body with soul-breaking terror that is just awesome.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) – Richard Linklater
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Time-honored period-film that simply and independently pulls off a believable vintage-vibe by bringing out big nuances out of very small-town things.
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) – Jason Woliner
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Might be the worst sequel “ever to happen to a man or jew”, but its raunchy, manipulative heart still points generously in the right direction.
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Beasts of No Nation (2015) – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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The automatic acid rain that comes with being a voiceless victim with no other choice but gravitational travesty. A perspective-enforcing film of monumental caliber.
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Memento (2000) – Chris Nolan
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Circular uphill post-amnesiac ride that prints itself out both in color and black & white while each new layer diagonally help us to remember.
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The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
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Kurt CobainΒ΄s last watched film: kiwi period piece that is really about prostitution rather than repressed passions juicing through the colourful cracks of dark colonialism.
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Midsommar (2019) – Ari Aster
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Cliches are nothing but dosed up bait in an artistic horror film of compensatory length that lightens up instead of darken while blooming us away.
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Harold and Maude (1971) – Hal Ashby
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This film makes me believe in love. Connection that knows no age, class, or reason. Through each other’s love, both characters become their best selves.
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – Bruce Beresford
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Widowed & wizened,
Jim-Crow-South,
Jewish-Princess “Outsider”
Enjoys commanding
Subordinate Blacks,
But learns to FEEL
Kinship w/ black chauffeur
While her son
Assimilates.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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Judy sang “Born in a trunk”.
Rudy danced “Born on a train”.
Trunk or train, it’s an old refrain:
“Survival of the cutest on stage”.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“Equality & Fraternity” ?
NO.
“Liberty (w/ follow-spot)”
YES.
“I was born to excell.
(Let the rest go to Hell.)
Signed,
Nureyev,
“King of Ballet”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“For me, no more
‘Espree d’ cor’ ”
Says Rudy to
Soviet nursery.
“In Paris France
I’ll take my chance
For fancier pants
And fat-pursery.”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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The Soviets expect gratitude from
a “lump of coal” they polished into
a diadem for their chandelier of
mock-French Ballet.
But Pinocchio renounces Gepetto.
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The Elevator @Awahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, CA
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Agressiv roter Blickfang nachdem man den ikonischen Eingangsbereich passiert hat.
Verstand spinnt automatisch ein sich links erΓΆffnendes Blutszenario zusammen, welches ein NΓ€hertreten unterbewusst erschwerlicher macht.
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The Irishman (2019) – Martin Scorsese
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Crème de la crème of a celebrated lifetime of Midnight Espressos that cinematically pushes every right Benjamin-Button with medically accurate gore and passive wrath.
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Gladiator (2000) – Ridley Scott
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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliverβs lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.
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Boy Erased (2018) – Joel Edgerton
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The camera focusez mostly on the “Boy” who’z “script” describez hiz harrowing encounter w/ evangelical “Converzhion Therapy for Gayz”.
The camera “Erasez” hiz erroneous
parents.
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Fight Club (1999) – David Fincher
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Childless & sleepless, guy asks mirror, “What’s it all about, Alpha? Is it just for Ikea I live?” Mirror answers: “Oil & water mix explosively.”
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Moonlight (2016) – Barry Jenkins
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Born-queer little midnite-black-boy survivez Macho Cult-shure w/ brief fostering support & ritual “baptism”
Into a long
quest for
one
Tru
Luv.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) – Vince Gilligan
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A pastrie-bone of an off-spinning movie for those nostalgic fans who for years waited long between seasons. A cultural phenomenon that gives back.
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Thursday (1998) – Skip Woods
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Brightly lit indie truffle full of good dialog with intimately framed characters who are strong in blood and flavor including the most fatal femme fatale.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) – Mike Figgis
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Shue deeps her toes into cinematic greatness in an emotionally productive codependent-relationship with a very fine Nicolas Cage who gently escorts her around hell.
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Creepshow 2 (1987) – Michael Gornick
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Good times horror flick for the underworld-savvy Rock βnβ Roll pre-teen that has a gluttonous taste for graphically warned sex and the macabre.
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Gangster No. 1 (2000) – Paul McGuigan
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Get yourself kitted out proper with an invisible rope around your birdΒ΄s neck until youΒ΄re cuffed. Donβt hate the player but love the bloody game.
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Spun (2002) – Jonas Γ kerlund
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A deliberately over-edited character-carousel colorfully whirling around all kinds of wild trailer-trash debauchery with the ruminating impatience of a coked-up policeman.
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The Wrecking Crew (1968) – Phil Karlson
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Mehr eine sexy Spionage-KomΓΆdie mit ΓΌberbesetzter βCrewβ, welche zu stark Werbung fΓΌr den Dean Martin Soundtrack macht. Gewann mehr Lorbeeren durch Tates kultbehaftetes Ableben.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cage Creed
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A bright flame of a thespian toddler that thanks to the divine intervention of editing can do no wrong when melting the Arriflex lenses away.
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Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese
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Never underestimate the pain resolutions of those whoβve have been wronged by you. A cautionary moral mortality story in which everybody loses and were entertained.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Victor Pascow
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A very gruesome but friendly ghost the way Casper was meant to be but failed miserably due to its punch-me-in-the-face tenderness.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Louis Creed
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The pater familias and owner of the Norman Rockwell house by the side of the road-rope noosing around his trophy house-wife and kids.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – Terry Gilliam (Coincidental iTunes 25-WR by Gixxer k4)
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“Geiler Film hab mich tot gelacht als ich den zum ersten Mal gesehen habe. Ich will dir doch nur ein Z in die Stirn ritzen.”
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian GrΓΌnberg (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.”
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Buffalo ’66 (1998) – Vincent Gallo
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All romantic comedies should be independent passion projects by law, the breaking of which should be punished by force feeding the perpetrator with commercial crap.
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Gia (1998) – Michael Cristofer
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Being hot and wanted worked the opposite way inside the self-repelling time bomb that Gia Carangi really was. A flawlessly executed plead for caution.
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The Others (2001) – Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
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Intense beauty and fear holding hands in the permanent protection of a broken family that is full of love for one another in macabre ignorance.
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All That Jazz (1979) – Bob Fosse
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Solipsistic Jizz-jerk that feels sorry for itself with a smile we all share in the gluttonous glitter surrounding our every longing delusion of danger.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Victor Fleming
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The Johann Sebastian Bach of relevant children films from an era in which intense fear and wonder was grafted onto them for their own good.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) -Mike Figgis
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Suicide is not painless, and drinking yourself to death has got to be one of the worst ways to check out of this world affair.
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To Die For (1995) – Gus Van Sant
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Iβd die for her in a heartbeat, wouldnβt anybody? No. Nothing like a motion picture to illustrate the obsessive use of externally abusive internal agendas.
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The Good Son (1993) – Joseph Ruben
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All gimmicks are truisms, and all truisms are true. A truly messed up kid portrayed as perfectly as a veteran Shakespearean hand playing a glove.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) – Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone (Coincidental Rotten Tomatoes 25-WR)
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Never Stop Never Stopping updates the rock mockumentary for the 21st century mainstream β and hits many of its low-hanging targets with side-splitting impact.
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Falling Down (1993) – Prendergast
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An observant man who does not believe in the shutdown-retirement of duty and is blasphemed by the terrifying prospect of losing his existential stress.
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) – Wes Craven
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) meets the Shining (1980) during the well-manored, palm-treed night vision period of the Golf War. Sometimes in is out.
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Falling Down (1993) – Seedy Guy in Park
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The epitome of the parasitical social sociopath and the dark behavioral counterpart of Seinfeldβs (1989-1998) Kramer if let loose in the park long enough.
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Falling Down (1993) – D-Fens
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A man walking in the hottest of days with a rainless cloud above his head one drop away from spilling blood all over the place.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) – Michel Goudry
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VisionΓ€res Liebesdrama welches sich verstΓ€rkt durch eigene Erfahrungen subjektiv dramatisiert und zuletzt dein gelΓ€utertes Ich fragend in isolierender KΓ€lte zurΓΌcklΓ€sst; Nochmal zurΓΌck oder vergessend weiter?
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Parasite (2019) – Bong Joon Ho
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Langeweile schafft KreativitΓ€t
schafft unkonventionelle AbkΓΌrzungen.
Unterschichtler haben im Γberlebenskampf nach oben wenig zu verlieren, nur sich selber.
Ein mehrfach gefalteter Perspektivwechsel
wie beim Pizzakarton.
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian GrΓΌnberg
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Efficiently entertaining action comedy build around Mel Gibsonβs bullseye charm with which both his personal and crew effectiveness are borderline groundbreaking at a snappy pace.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Mary Lambert
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Creepy-ass piece of horror in the time-honored “Sacred Burial Ground” traditionβnotable members not exceeding the number of fingers in a monkeyβs paw.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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A perfectly lighted, both gently scripted and edited Neo-Classical 80Β΄s AIDS epidemic horror-metaphor that takes place in ghostly Detroit made by John Hughes.
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The Cable Guy (1996) – Ben Stiller (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.”
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Lost Highway (1997) – David Lynch (Coincidental 25-WR by David Sterritt from the Christian Science Monitor)
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βThe film actually deserves four stars for its imaginative style and astonishing suspense, zero stars for its shameless exploitation of violent shocks and loveless sensuality.β
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) – Francis Ford Coppola (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancΓ©e Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”
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Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.”
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Idi i smotri/Come and See (1985) -Elem Klimov (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.”
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo SΓ‘nchez (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Ellie Creed
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Thereβs something really naturally annoying about this child-actressβs performance that made her perfect for the part as one sides automatically with her brother instead.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – John Watts
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Tom Holland portrΓ€tiert Spiderman/ Peter Parker wie er im (Comic-)Buche schwingt.
Weniger Blockbuster, mehr gut umgesetzte Comic-Verfilmung als Puzzleteil im hiesigen MCU-Kosmos.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Churchill
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There are some really interesting developments in this blue Russian catβs character, the kind of revealing behavioral changes that are normally reserved to humans exclusively.
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Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
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A magic potion picture film that blatantly discriminates color and is heavy and greasy to the touch with high-contrasting characters gunned out of lead.
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What About Bob? (1991) – Frank Oz
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Hey, donΒ΄t hassle Bob, heΒ΄s alright and local. Hassle yourself into a new reality instead, because the one you know does does not apply anymore.
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Da hong deng long gao gao gua/Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – Yimou Zhang (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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βA young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.β
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The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
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With crew, cut, script, cast and sound of high enough caliber can this force of nature celluloid projectile blow up any line to kingdom come.
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Tideland (2005) – Terry Gilliam (Coindidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.”
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Rachel Creed
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A short-haired, fair-skinned maternal beauty carrying a black hole of trauma as heavy as cement-dipped sumo wrestlers fighting in a sinking ship.
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Rio Bravo (1959) – Howard Hawks
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A Western with an afterparty feel to it that lacks nothing but is in no hurry to get anywhere fast and that works perfectly somehow.
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Mandy (2018) – Part I: The Shadow Mountains 1983 A. D
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Real love in the hearts of good people who find themselves in the heart of 44 misty mountains being knock-knocked by a heartless world.
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Casino (1995) – Martin Scorsese
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Glorious continuation to the perfect film that Goodfellas (1987) already is, magnifying the produce from every technical artistic prowess displayed before into another real story.
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Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
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Ask Johnny Two-Times how funny does he think this based-on-true-events mob movie is, and exactly how is it amusing and entertaining.
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Nil by Mouth (1997) – Gary Oldman
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Brutalist approach to visually materializing an agonizing reality based on derision and Death-toned humanity. Never underestimate the darkness within a man behind his camera.
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The War Zone (1999) – Tim Roth
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Tremendous downer that is no way shape or form meant to be pleasantβby one of the most charming and universally acclaimed actors out there.
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Love Liza (2002) – Todd Louiso
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Sometimes one needs to destruct the body to save the mind in sweet but most socially unacceptable escapism. The colorful roads away from matte black.
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Stranger Things (2016 – ) – The Duffer Brothers
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Cineastisch bildliche Darstellung von zuckersΓΌΓen Synthie-Pop und dΓΌsteren Heavy Metal der 80er.
Herausragender Cast aus Kids und Milfs performt Mix aus βGooniesβ und βItβ.
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) – David Lynch
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The announcer vents the verdict: βladies and gentlemen, madame et monsieur, I am proud to announce we have a unanimous all-time dream-sequence winner.”
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Wake in Fright (1971) – Ted Kotcheff
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Very impressive, anti-heroic Australian blue-flame of a unique film that is as intense, raw and real as Kangaroo carcasses frying in the bush.
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – E. Elias Merhige
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If William Dafoe needed an acting diploma this should be his master thesis to share with KeatonΒ΄s Beetlejuice (1988) and GibsonΒ΄s The Singing Detective (2003.)
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Taika Waititi
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Nach Γndern der βThorβ-Formel im richtigen Space-Opera Licht.
Humor, βHulkβ, hervorragender Goldblum, Waititiβs βKorgβ und der Soundtrack lassen Hauptbedrohung sowie VorgΓ€ngerfehler fast vergessen.
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Deadpool (2016) – Tim Miller
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Alternative Origin- und Lovestory mit herzhaft genialer Comedy und βPegi-18-trifft-Comicβ-BrutalitΓ€t skizzieren den popularisierenden Antihelden, der durch Reynolds verkΓΆrperndem Showspiel vollendet wird.
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Thor: The Dark World (2013) – Alan Taylor
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Noch schwΓ€chere Fortsetzung und nachgekauter Mix aus Sci-Fi- und Mittelalter-Themen.
Aufgrund unnΓΆtiger Liebeshandlung, einem unrelevant austauschbaren BΓΆsewichten und vergessenswΓΌrdigen Ereignissen MCUβs uninteressantestes Kapitel.
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Falling Down (1993) – Joel Schumacher
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Jeder kennt diese Tage wo eine Kette von schlechten Ereignissen das Fass zum Γberlaufen bringen.
Doch wer ist der Gute/BΓΆse?
Midlife-Crisis auf Speed.
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Gummo (1997) – Harmony Korine
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Midwestern white trash at its ingrown-peak shown under neutral autopsy lights instead of the usual ridicule a John Waters satire would no doubt use.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) – Wes Craven
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This film stays terrifying as it ages backwards into a welcomed relevancy that never lies. A master class of suspense, atmosphere and practical visual effects
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Falling Down (1993) – Surplus Store Owner
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A compressed symptom-centipede happy to impose who cuts and salts every social nerve-ending that tries to bounce him off while panting for closure.
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Falling Down (1993) – Frank the Golfer
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A universe-centering old man who confidently swings the worldly rules of gravity and decorum out of balance in order to get his balls around.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) – The Coen Brothers
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Highly original take on Homerβs odyssey in the rural 1930βs space, where bank robberies and racism are still a thing that could get you killed.
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Barton Fink (1991) – The Coen Brothers
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When the salesman is Death and not the other way around the block of sanity that keeps peeling off in blind corridors of walled desires.
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Miller’s Crossing (1990) – The Coen Brothers
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Drinking is no lubricant but a lifestyle. A hat is not an object but a character that wears you on while you try staying lubricated.
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Raising Arizona (1987) – The Coen Brothers
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An early proof of astounding pop-culture re-wiring prowess by bringing the screwball comedy (out of all dungeon-dead formulas) back to the mainstream
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T2 Trainspotting (2017) – Danny Boyle
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A circle jerk full of ballsy bells and whistles that addresses, entertains and extends everyoneβs self-destructive sense of nostalgia beyond whole mountains of warning.
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In Country (1989) – Norman Jewison
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You canΒ΄t come back from a raw deal that was mainlined to you and got you grief-infected for life and just forget about it.
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Rolling Thunder (1977) – John Flynn
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Founding father of the Vietnam-Vet-Vendetta genre thatΒ΄s still vein-popping while advocating separation of mind and body when it comes to romancing pain.
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Office Space (1999) – Mike Judge
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The breaking point in a manβs heart & mind contains nothing but shards of echoing contempt in his biosphere whereas others are martialled by cubicles.
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Interview the Vampire: the Vampire Chronicles (1994) – Neil Jordan
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One of the top ten (one can only wish thereβd be so many) GOOD Hollywood vampire flicks that doesnβt feel like a lame juvenile setup.
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Kingpin (1996) – The Farrelly Brothers
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The pain of being a has-been and staying hooked in the past with one hand while trying to make yourself vomit with the other.
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Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski
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A riveting montage about a young womanΒ΄s accelerating feelings of simultaneous loss of mind and innocence while inside the claustrophobic loneliness of a large metropolis.
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The Doors (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Stunning tunnel-vision composite that is dead-determined to focus on tip-of-the-iceberg aspects of a rich and extraordinary story. Kilmer shines possessed.
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Bad Lieutenant (1992) – Abel Ferrara
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The in-built morals that wonΒ΄t stay numb after realizing thereΒ΄s no caring-God but yourself and the strange, deflating pain that comes with it.
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βBandersnatchβ (2018) Black Mirror – David Slade
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Black Mirror x Telltale.
TΓ€gliche Entscheidungen treffen Menschen allein.
-> FrΓΌhstΓΌck, Job, Lebensstil [einfΓΌgen]
-Wirklich?-
-… βWer?β
<-Klick-
βNetflix?β
… *ctrl + z*
βFruity Loops.β
Pionierarbeit.
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Children Of Men (2006) – Alfonso CuarΓ³n
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Fiktive Epidemie einer alternativen RealitΓ€t.
– Hautnahe One-Take-Szenen
– Intensiv eindringender Soundtrack
– Meisterhafte Regieleistung
Man riecht fΓΆrmlich das Elend einer geplagten Menschheit, spΓΌrt Schuss-, Explosionsvibrationen.
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Doctor Strange (2016) – Scott Derrickson
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βInceptionβ trifft βHarry Potterβ trifft βSherlockβ –
Cumberbatch ist geboren fΓΌr sarkastische, hochintelligente Rollen.
Marvels EinfΓΌhrung in die Welt der Magie ist ein optisch imposanter Sahnebonbon.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Interior Set Design
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Richly detailed, sinisterly static interior designs that are choke-full of tell-telling family items that are arteried together by old New England American gothic.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Jud Crandall
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An agingly sweet giant fool of a man that means well but helps nothing but to accelarate whatΒ΄s coming. How about minding your own business?
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National Lampoonβs European Vacation (1985) – Amy Heckerling
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The Griswold kids got much uglier but the parents expand on themselves. Chase tilts his characterβs sanity into a benchmark-trend that runs solid today.
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Hamburger Hill (1987) – John Irvin
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By far the goriest, most visually grounding of the Revival-wave of vet-approved Vietnam war films that muddied the Clearwater of the late Eighties.
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I Origins (2014) – Mike Cahill
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Not even 11 Dalai Lamas could foresee legit twists in this half-lensed effort thatβd otherwise be in the pits if it wasnβt for Michael.
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The English Patient (1996) – Anthony Minghella
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A closer full-color look into the lives, intrigues and conflicts of human mammals in the arid 40βs desert environment by the International Geographic channel.
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Network (1976) – Sidney Lumet
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Not to be taken lightly despite the dark humor that works every time. Outstanding satire on the organized religion that news and entertainment really are.
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Gone Girl (2014) – David Fincher
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Konventioneller Auftakt mit unwohlbringender Spannung.
Halbfinale symbolisiert vollzogene 180 Grad welche bei 360 alternative Extrarunde drehen kΓΆnnte wenn Abspann nicht wΓ€re.
“Don’t piss her off.”
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The Departed (2006) – Martin Scorsese
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A dream-team cast presided over by Jack Nicholson in a Martin Scorsese film featuring Rollings Stones music…what could go wrong? ThatΒ΄s right: nothing.
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Gone Girl (2014) – David Fincher
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Insurmountably pristine cinematography that feels factory-sealed to the visual-touch. Fincher is a master of keeping us interested in people that make us flinch.
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TodayΒ΄s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Paul Newman – January 26 (1925-2008)
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NewmanΒ΄s own particular type of charm can only happen once a dimension. Piston paralleled lines of motored characters fed him well with the old adrenaline.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cinematography
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Nice & juicy saturated sky blues, grass greens, and shinny apple redsβas well as well-lit darknesses with no spared precious details to miss.
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Thor (2011) – Kenneth Branagh
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Marvels wackeliger Start der βThorβ-Saga und EinfΓΌhrung des zukΓΌnftigen Antagonisten der Avengers βLokiβ im sich aufbauenden Marvel-Universum.
Zu stark auf Nummer Sicher gegangen.
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Motorama (1991) – Barry Shils
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The “Myth of Sisyphus” for the self-made kid stuck in a cartoonish world unsupervised by dim-burnouts soiling the oily ground that spawned them.
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Avengers (2012) – Joss Whedon
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Erstes groΓes MCU-Event ist die Zusammenkunft der Avengers um βLokiβ, authentischster BΓΆsewicht bisher, aufzuhalten.
Erste groΓe NY-Schlacht bietet feinsten bunten Fanservice.
βHulk Smash!β
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Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) – Joss Whedon
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Etwas schwΓ€cheres βDiesmal mehr!β-Sequel mit mehr Kampfszenen, skurrilen Charaktersidestories und einem intelligenteren Feind.
PersΓΆnliches Highlight wenn Favorit Hawkeye vom unbedeutenden zum coolen Avenger wird.
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Platoon (1986) – Oliver Stone
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Oliver Stoneβs first installment of his venerably veritable Vietnam War film trilogy, starting with his own experience as a volunteer coming from a privileged background.
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – John Carpenter
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“Do you read Sutter Cane?” No, but I know H. P. Lovecraft and this is a direct homage. A teenage trip IΒ΄m proud to like.
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Nightcrawler (2014) – Dan Gilroy
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Gyllenhaal spielt nicht in diesem Film mit.
Ein ΓΌberzeugendes, nΓ€chtliches Los Angeles,
wo der normale Alleinverdiener hinter der Kamera alles fΓΌr eine perfekte Aufnahme riskiert.
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Born the Fourth of July (1989) – Oliver Stone
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An important story about disillusionment prevented from further skipping generations thanks to putting resources and creative control into the hands of those who lived it.
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City Kino Wedding – Berlin, Germany
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An emerald hiding in the bushes around Berlinβs Eiffel Tower that could only be better if popcorn was sold and the projection rooms were darker.
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Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch
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Rare, inextinguishable desert eagle of directorial dedication and infinitesimal-involvement that relays on meditation to sink within and come out ultimately with practical plastic art.
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The Big Lebowski (1998) – The Coen Brothers
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From a jurassic VHS era where unpopular releases survived by the skin of their toothless box-office insignificance to now when people canβt get enough.
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You Were Never Really Here (2017) – Lynne Ramsay
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Wundervolle Schauspielkunst und KamerafΓΌhrung und trotzdem solider Standard dank der Handlung, welche schon zu oft im Mittelpunkt anderer Glanztaten war.
Brennender Phoenix umgeben von Asche.
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Troy (2004) – Wolfgang Petersen
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Ein glΓ€ubiges KΓΆnigreich voller NaivitΓ€t fΓΌr eine blauΓ€ugige blonde Prinzessin, das jedoch aufβs falsche Pferd setzt.
Helden sterben, KΓΆnige sterben. Sean Bean ΓΌberlebt.
Paradox, episch..
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The Road to Wellville (1994) – Alan Parker
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Never neglect a beautiful woman the doctor says. You better do what he says or heΒ΄ll be sure to beat the Kelloggs out of you.
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Twelve Monkeys (1995) – Terry Gilliam
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Fantastic paradoxed-up, apocalyptic flick that makes us feel like weΒ΄re hanging tight to the heroΒ΄s back the way baby monkeys would in the wild.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – James Cameron
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The Heather Graham of good, smart, gracefully aging action films thatΒ΄s also one of those rare cases in which the sequel improves on the original.
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Days of Heaven (1978) – Terrence Malick
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Love triangles donβt work, period; but if youβre going for it do it during the magic hour when light makes everything look and feel right.
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Badlands (1973) – Terrence Malick
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Terrenceβs malice is in the details, Martinβs Malick in what he thinks but does not say. Sissy has none but carries the curse of passiveness.
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The Thing (1982) – John Carpenter
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Just about the wildest cosmic cabin fever imaginable while stuck in white-desert limbo with βtwelveβ angry man deciding whoβs next at the burning stake.
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The Hunger (1983) – Tony Scott
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A good collection of real-life vampires that will forever walk in beauty in this string-chambered celluloid-gem that survives a handicapped subject-matter.
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Summer of Sam (1999) – Spike Lee
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Everyone curses except for the killer and his dog in the hot and sticky summer of our discontent made glorious winter by this fucking masterpiece.
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Female Perversions (1996) – Susan Streitfeld
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The ticking time-bomb that appearances really are and the pale, psychotic knuckles betraying the grabbing on to it. Tilda swings herself away in submersion.
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Chinatown (1974) – Roman Polanski
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The right era. The right casting. The right script. What can I tell you, Roman? You’re right. When you’re right, you’re right, and you’re right.
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In a Lonely Place (1950) – Nicholas Ray
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You donΒ΄t let a dame in distress walk into your place for help twice without secretly testing your own fidelity to yourself and professional practice.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
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How can you tell if the gold is even real when inside your head everything is in black and white? True colors cross you twice.
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Inherent Vice (2014) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A perplexing ride-along with a heroic heroin-free doper peek-eye in one of the most confusing coordinates of time to be anchored at.
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There Will Be Blood (2007) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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A very proud and angry turn-of-the-20th-century prospector carries inflammable cabin fever around him everywhere/everyone he choses to own and drill.
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The Man Who Wasnβt There (2001) – The Coen Brothers
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The exquisite sense of irony of modern manβs bullshit life is never dry-cleaner than here; all been told in luminance levels imbued with Beethoven.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
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Far-out anti-war/pro-drugs cinematic experience that hits its heart-target as a perfect Parthian shot taken while exiting the dark 1970βs jungle.
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Sexy Beast (2000) – Jonathan Glazer
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Happiness is skin-drying under the molting Milky Way of Spain in a fortress carved out of distress. Unhappiness is having Mahatma Gandhi come visit.
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Boogie Nights (1997) – Paul Thomas Anderson
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The wonderful places you end up in when youβve got nowhere to come back to. Fear and desire can spawn lots out of an edge.
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Frank (2014) – Lenny Abrahamsom
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Heβs the amalgamation between Syd Barret and the most bizarre talk show host imaginable. The brightest side of mental illness shines through this crazy diamond.
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The Wall (1982) – Alan Parker
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Majestic musical giving sound and picture to the specific traumas of growing up in a walled-in society and carrying it everywhere like a disease.
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Iron Man 3 (2013) – Shane Black
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Umstrittenes, erwachsenes Trilogiefinale fokussiert auf Tony Stark statt Alter Ego. Hinzu kommt gigantischer Bacon Switch, schockierend fΓΌr Comic-Puristen. Spreu von Weizen a la carte.
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Prisoners (2013) – Denis Villeneuve
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Beim Schauen wurde ich in einer der mitreissendsten Ermittlungen eines Schwerverbrechens und moralischer Weggabelungen entfΓΌhrt.
Mit (an)gespannten Schultern war ich ein Gefangener bis zum Ende!
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The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018) – Coen Brothers
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Moderne Coenβsche Western-Anthologie bestehend aus 6 unabhΓ€ngigen Geschichten.
Was mit AuthentizitΓ€t und Charme losgeht entwickelt sich zur herben EnttΓ€uschung mit zu weit verstreuten Glanzmomenten.
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Rocky (1976) – John G. Avildsen
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Urgestein des Boxfilms.
Stallone macht meistens einen guten Job, nahezu jede andere Rolle leidet entweder unter grausig schwachem oder albernd starkem Schauspiel.
Schlecht gealterter Film.
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Creep (2014) – Patrick Brice
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Blairwitchesque Found-Footage-Film beginnend um eine fragwΓΌrdige Person.
(Gute) Jumpscares, makaberer Humor sowie schizophrene Ansicht, -Stimmungswechsel zwischen Psychostalking und Mordgedanken erzeugen konstante Nichtblinzel-AtmosphΓ€re.
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John Wick (2014) – Chad Stahelski & David Leitch
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Ein Mann, kein Wort.
Klassischer Rache-Actionstreifen, jedoch ohne Cheesyness.
Allerdings kreieren unlogische HandlungsstrΓ€nge sowie komische Dynamik eher eine βJohn kommt, tΓΆtet und gehtβ-AtmosphΓ€re.
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) – Bryan Singer
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Eine kleine Silhouette eines Mannes.
Dieser Film ist ein Fandango von talentierten Schauspielern und wir sehen wie gΓ€nsehauterregende Geistesblitze zu Hitsongs werden. Biopic des Jahres!
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Falling Down (1993) – Joel Schumacher
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Is human decency economically viable? A day in the life of a middle-aged, divorced family-man going through the existential heatwave of a lifetime.
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Ice-T aka. Tracy Lauren Marrow – Todayβs Birthday Tost, 16.02.1958
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Ice-motherfuckinβ-T verleiht seine authentische Stimme sowie vantaschwarz kalifornische Seele sowohl fΓΌr unzΓ€hlige TV-Auftritte als auch charaktergebend prΓ€gnant im Hip Hop und Metal.
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Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis
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This existential winter May never end, but Bill Murray, a disoriented rodent and romance will sustain you. When time stands still, you can do anything.
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) – Mary Harron
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People go after their fifteen minutes of fame the way a moth goes to a flame. Symptoms of burning can only manifest in negative ways.
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Nobody’s Baby (2001) – David Seltzer
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An almost invisible Gary Oldman is betrayed only by his exuding greatness while saving a motion picture that will chapstick you in many uncomfortable places.
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) – Mel Gibson
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Only Gibsonβs own radical passion could heal the constant wounds of a hemophiliac subject that never begins to end. Pleasure-pain for the dogma-giddy.
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The Night of the Iguana (1964) – John Huston
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Aging can (and will) drive you crazy as long as youΒ΄re not keeping up with your peers. Are clergymen exempt from this? LetΒ΄s find out.
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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) – Blake Edwards
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Always soul crushing to see a grown man sob like a silver child in a fairytale world where alcohol turns back into heroin every midnight.
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Deadpool 2 (2018) – David Leitch
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Actiongeladenes Sequel des liebenswert vorlauten Comic-SΓΆldners – diesmal mit Team und Referenzen Γ©n masse.
Wo Teil 1 spontan zΓΌndete, ΓΌbersprieΓt Teil 2 mit ΓΌbersΓΌΓen Wohlwollen.
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Le violon rouge (1998) – FranΓ§ois Girard
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A beautifully crafted international film that follows the undying nomadic life of an inanimate object that both brings and ends life to those around it.
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LΓ₯t den rΓ€tte komma in (2008) – Tomas Alfredson
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As if the Scandinavian cold, darkness and depression wasnΒ΄t enough, there had to be a goddamn vampire on top. Better lock your windows too, people!
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JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Maybe Oswald was a great shot after all and single-handedly dented the world with a fulminant sacrifice…a patsy-making film of paranoid passion.
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Hearts and Minds (1974) – Peter Davies
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A sweaty collage of participant-perspectives circling down the drain of an exhausted conflict that Americans so tip-of-the-iceberg-ly deemed too long.
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Fargo (1996) – Joel & Ethan Coen
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This is the big fat mothership originally carrying the rich Paul Bunyan-esque dimension where true stories are always told exactly as they never occurred.
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Edmond (2005) – Stuart Gordon
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What happened to MacyΒ΄s character in “Fargo” (1996) during his New York trip the day before he got arrested as well as the jail aftermath.
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Snatch (2000) – Guy Ritchie
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Never go to England, but if you do, make sure your shoes are shit-hole proof. A comedy with a primeval force that is exquisite.
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971) – Dalton Trumbo
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Written and directed by a black-listed Spartan-man whoΒ΄s only begotten power was paralyzed by the wronging sword of a State of infuriating affairs.
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The Place Beyond The Pines (2012) – Derek Cianfrance
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βDurch die Bankβ dΓΌstere Geschichte welche die AbgrΓΌnde menschlicher Macht- und Gesellschaftsdramen aufreiΓt.
In drei Akten holen die jeweiligen Protagonisten das Maximum ihrer Rollen raus.
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Creed (2015) – Ryan Coogler
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Ich, kein groΓer Boxfan, fand dieses technisch erstaunliche Filmtribut ΓΌbertraf jeden Rocky.
Stallone & Jordan liefern Meisterleistungen mit groΓartiger Message und ohne viel Boxfilm-Klischees.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – Wes Anderson
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This theatric complex caleidoscope is a testament of extraordinary camera work.
And through charming humor, masterful acting andΒ a monumental cast it gets better every time.
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The Border (1982) – Tony Richardson
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To monitor the fringes of the world for monsters is what the self-serrating brain of law-enforcement does best. An acquired taste in morals.
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Withnail & I (1987) – Bruce Robinson
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HereΒ΄s where you write. Delete this text to set the Word Count to back to zero but do make sure you stay between the signs.
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone
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The Italian mammoth-mama of all justifiably long, resentment-free films that is perfectly casted, filmed and performed thusly keeping the human-continuity from slipping.
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Broken Flowers (2005) – Jim Jarmusch
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WeΒ΄re only as good as peopleΒ΄s memory of us. What do you give to the man who has everything and still seems sad? A ride!
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Gran Torino (2008) – Clint Eastwood
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The almost insufferable high-school-play acting during the first part feels like a favor owed to someone we like. Clint sings and saves it.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) – Alexander Mackendrick
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Hunting down the single cleanest man on Earth to make him dirty like the rest of us is not such an easy task after all.
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The Wraith (1986) – Mike Marvin
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The darkest shade of Sheen at the peak of his fountain-of-youth fame before infamy made up most of his name despite respectable nepotism.
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The King of Comedy (1982) – Martin Scorsese
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Donβt let anybody tell you who you are all your life and be a schmuck. Period. Thereβs always a way and hereβs one of them.
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Angel Heart (1987) – Alan Parker
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Harry Angel: Hey, you ever watch the Mickey Rourke Club? ‘Cause you know what today… today is? Today is Wednesday. It’s anything can happen day.
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Barry Lyndon (1975) – Barry Lyndon
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Hopefully in this day and age of long forms of entertainment such as the video podcast people can finally quit complaining about Barry Lyndonβs length.
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Permanent Midnight (1998) – David Veloz
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A passionate and out-of-character character for Stiller, that he brings out convincingly in an extreme case of adrenaline addiction under strict hyper-functionality.
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) – Stanley Kubrick
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A two-parter prequel to βBirdyβ (1984) following the characterβs experience in the millitary from boot camp to combat under the name of private Joker.
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Spartacus (1960) – Stanley Kubrick
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Hard to believe this unquestionably classic film would have trouble seeing the light and burn holes through egos until Kubrick rose up to the occasion.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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Einmal wieder Kind sein?
Durch permanenter Paranoia (re)kreiert diese absurd geniale Verfilmung Angst in purer Ursprungsform.
Ton und Licht schleifen βEsβ zum AtmosphΓ€rediamanten der Neuzeit.
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Salvador (1986) – Oliver Stone
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It starts out with an almost comical Hunter S. Thompson road-trip air, but quickly takes a wild U-Turn into “The Killing Fields” (1984).