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Picture-pitch perfect except for the sound of farts offensively trapping a scattered
plot inside of a frame that hits one square between the eyes.

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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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Beyond the good one would expect as it beautifully boomerangs itself back to hoped-for Pulp Fiction territory only this time with a heavier cast.

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Firmly cushioned in the eye candy of the revolutionary storm—adorned with a Rock & Rococo soundtrack that invisibly frames the perfect portrait of unawareness.

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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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Fully charged but its progressive energy keeps getting cut off by a silver screenplay that can’t tell exposition from emotional-trigger boredom apart at all.

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Family values suffer
In this Passion Play
Powered by music,
Coal, OIL, & palms
Greased by multiple
Pieces of silver.
Lewis triumphs in
Self-crucifixion.

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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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Benchmark trip from a fantastic audio-visual realm that does not really clarify the slowly rotating Rubik´s Cube storyline that’s space-cold and trauma-like.

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A clandestine teenage brothel run by hard loving parents who keep basking in God´s rain right where the moral crater seems to bleed the most.

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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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Geoffrey Rushes his
Portayal of Proteus
Both amusing
And annihilating all
Significant others
(especially mothers),
But never
Pleased!
(Based-on book)

Don’t skip
Audio Commentaries!

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Not even partially dubious casting could jinx this blood-ruby of classy kitsch—carved out of morbid fascination and respect for the franchise´s original outputs.

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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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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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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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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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Kurt Cobain´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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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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“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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“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 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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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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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliver’s lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.

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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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“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”

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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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“A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.”

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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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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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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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If William Dafoe needed an acting diploma this should be his master thesis to share with Keaton´s Beetlejuice (1988) and Gibson´s The Singing Detective (2003.)

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Highly original take on Homer’s odyssey in the rural 1930’s space, where bank robberies and racism are still a thing that could get you killed.

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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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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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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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A closer full-color look into the lives, intrigues and conflicts of human mammals in the arid 40’s desert environment by the International Geographic channel.

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Oliver Stone’s 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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Ein gläubiges Königreich voller Naivität für eine blauäugige blonde Prinzessin, das jedoch auf’s falsche Pferd setzt.
Helden sterben, Könige sterben. Sean Bean überlebt.
Paradox, episch..

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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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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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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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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 exquisite sense of irony of modern man’s bullshit life is never dry-cleaner than here; all been told in luminance levels imbued with Beethoven.

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Moderne Coen’sche Western-Anthologie bestehend aus 6 unabhängigen Geschichten.
Was mit Authentizität und Charme losgeht entwickelt sich zur herben Enttäuschung mit zu weit verstreuten Glanzmomenten.

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Eine kleine Silhouette eines Mannes.
Dieser Film ist ein Fandango von talentierten Schauspielern und wir sehen wie gänsehauterregende Geistesblitze zu Hitsongs werden. Biopic des Jahres!

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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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Only Gibson‘s 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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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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Written and directed by a black-listed Spartan-man who´s only begotten power was paralyzed by the wronging sword of a State of infuriating affairs.

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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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Ermittlungen im verkokeltem Heuhaufen dank angespannter Luft. Rauch und keine Aussicht auf Regen. Die vermisste Nadel taucht zu spät auf.
Geplagter Drei-Generationplot verdichtet sich.

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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 Lyndon’s length.

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Von Sekunde Null an wird man direkt nach Prypjat transportiert und ist Zeuge einer Kettenreaktion an Fehlentscheidungen, welche bedrohlich kühl durch beeindruckendem Cast dargestellt werden.

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This movie is about fear and the end of the world. Knowing how bad history went as a spectator makes it all the more brutal.

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Inbegriff eines High School-Sommerferienbeginn-Gefühls. Ein gigantisches Musikvideo mit sanfter Nostalgie und familiärem Vibe durch viele heutzutage bekannte Schauspieler vor der Blüte ihrer Zeit.

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Zeitloser „Feel Good“-Film über Freundschaft, Gerechtigkeit und Spiritualität für jene ohne Hoffnung, die glauben sie wären am Ende.
Wunderschön verfilmt, komplett ohne Special Effects.

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A budget-bulged passion package containing tremendous Orson Welles admiration inside, while storytelling the shaky struggling days of a good heart looking for missing talent.

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Klassisches Aufeinandertreffen zweier unterschiedlicher Generationen verkörpert durch gegenseitiges an die Wand spielen.
Herzliche Reise durch die Staaten der 60er mit musikalischer Seele und ordinärem Humor.

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Nerdy humorvolles Low-Budget-Break-Up-Drama mit jugendlichem Charme im Einkaufszentrum.
Jay und Silent Bob und Stan Lee‘s bester Cameo.

Ein Film für mich.

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An original motion picture with an irresistible trailer and a surefire cast. A great take on our basic humanity and treatment of one another. Outstanding.

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Ludwig van Beethoven´s life and Zeitgeist crammed in two hours including sex, alcohol and post-Baroque & Roll. An ordinary film with an extraordinary cast.

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Wise men say only fools rush into a dating game show and fall in love with themselves on television—but the wisest run the show.

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Cusack hasn´t been this good since his own Grace disappeared, but Dano has been trully great for the first time in a permanently resonant film.

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Careful what you audition for: it might get you in the tightest-spot of a color-blind district that is sharp with double-life contrast.

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No need to agree with people’s desires, but to absolutely defend their right to pursuit them and prosper. Bad-taste has a short shell life.

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A fucking fabulous face – morphing film – feast, that feels like a heavy Ayahuasca trip that will rock and roll you out of your favorite t-shirt.

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Bubonic-plague personified decides to single out the fastest Death-escaping cowboy and wastes no time in hunting him down a road of rural intrigue.

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A battleground-breaking anti-war, anti memory-loss production that came out only twelve years after the great war cracked the Death atom-nerve open.

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An effective bon vivant in the political realm who’s own mind has become imprisoned in a cell of depleted endorphins finds action in external meaning.

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Rise and fall of the great wall of street Gatsby-ing self-amusedly told in tones that charm and entertain but fail to reach redemption.

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It boggles the mind to see modern beauty so densely packed into a movie-sitting. A transcendental chandelier made out of sweat, tears and chlorophyll.

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