Lee (2023)
67%
“In the end, as with so many well-intentioned biopics, the best thing about this movie is the attention it will draw to its brilliant, visionary subject.” –
The Bulwark
Nov 2, 2024
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
93%
“If that sounds like an unexpected subject for a Scorsese flick, that's one of the movie's strengths: the moment when you realize that this story is perfect for this director.” –
Patheos
Nov 29, 2023
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Bottoms (2023)
91%
“Of course I loved it!” –
Patheos
Sep 28, 2023
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Dark Waters (1993)
67%
“Atmospheric, but a bit empty...” –
Patheos
Sep 21, 2023
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Threads (1984)
100%
“I don’t know, what can you say about Threads? I knew its reputation and it lived up to it.” –
Patheos
Sep 18, 2023
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Performance (1970)
81%
“Unfortunately the film is mostly about the gangster, who lacks Jagger’s charisma and generally is no fun. And then the self-consciously disorienting style makes it even harder to care about what is happening.” –
Patheos
Sep 18, 2023
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Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
97%
“The fairy-tale, magical/horror elements are a little too constructive and strenuously uplifting.” –
Patheos
Sep 18, 2023
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A Dark Song (2016)
91%
“A slow and wrenching film which nonetheless lives up to the promise of its title.” –
Patheos
Sep 18, 2023
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Candyman (1992)
79%
“Candyman is perfectly shot, and its central characters are iconic.” –
Patheos
Aug 21, 2023
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Hocus Pocus (1993)
41%
“Hocus Pocus walks a fine line, where we get to enjoy witchy glee but also feel real emotions about their victims.” –
Patheos
Aug 21, 2023
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I Like Bats (1986)
“I found it very hard to connect with the blank heroine or her generic blond doctor.” –
Patheos
Aug 21, 2023
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Walker (1987)
47%
“I think the movie doesn’t quite know what it wants to say about the idealism driving American military action. Unsurprisingly, it also has absolutely nothing to say about internal Nicaraguan politics...” –
Patheos
Aug 16, 2023
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
96%
“The action is fine–Carpenter’s good at this, it’s all brisk, just enough characterization to make these feel like people who cast real shadows but no more than that. Carpenter did the music as well, and it’s fantastic.” –
Patheos
Aug 16, 2023
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
“It's funny in a low-key way, and the scene with all the nobles watching the king eat or reject foods is memorable, but in the end I don't know that I needed to see this.” –
Patheos
Aug 15, 2023
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The Scarlet Empress (1934)
86%
“...it looks amazing, it is probably blasphemous, it’s in keeping with the movie’s overall fantasy of Savage Russia...” –
Patheos
Aug 15, 2023
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Dark Days (2000)
94%
“Dark Days is well-paced, knowing when to ramble and when to pull you up short. Great editing. Great choices of which stories to tell on camera.” –
Patheos
Jul 31, 2023
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The Lady and the Duke (2001)
72%
“What comes out in the storytelling is the way our actions emerge from a tangle of sympathies, personal loyalties or debts owed, preexisting relationships we take for granted, and professed ideologies.” –
Patheos
Jul 31, 2023
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25th Hour (2002)
80%
“There’s a clunkiness to the rant montage, and yet it is also so heartfelt, so loving.” –
Patheos
Jul 31, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
95%
“Thrillingly inventive visuals, an absolute can't-miss movie in spite of having not much to say and insisting on saying it anyway.” –
Patheos
Jul 31, 2023
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They Cloned Tyrone (2023)
95%
“This movie is so fun, so joyful in its plunge into a stylized Black cultural world that mixes nostalgia for the bad old Blaxploitation days and hypercontemporary references, that you almost don’t notice how much Afropessimism is in its DNA.” –
Patheos
Jul 31, 2023
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
86%
“...rough-edged and willing to be weird; its interiors and lighting are more extreme, its characters are grittier...” –
Patheos
May 24, 2023
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She-Devil (1989)
48%
“A lot of the choices, from Streep’s acting to her pink-princess mansion, seem like they’re aiming for camp but don’t go hard enough.” –
Patheos
May 24, 2023
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Cropsey (2009)
91%
“Cropsey is really well-paced in doling out both large and small revelations.” –
Patheos
May 24, 2023
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Flaming Ears (1992)
89%
“I know you think that sounds fun, and it was at first, but the more it just accumulated in a heap, the less I cared.” –
Patheos
May 24, 2023
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The Watermelon Woman (1996)
92%
“Rambling, sweetly serious but also willing to do some self-deprecating satire, equal parts time capsule and still-relevant sheaf of questions.” –
Patheos
May 24, 2023
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