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John Beifuss

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Favorites:

The Bride of Frankenstein Citizen Kane Dead Man Safe It's a Gift to name just a few

Location:

Memphis, TN

Reviews

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Amélie (2001) 90% 3.5/4 “Admittedly there's something somewhat dubious about Amelie's self-congratulatory nature and self-conscious cuteness... But my advice is to accept Amelie gratefully for the cinematic bonbon it is. It may not be nutritious, but it sure is sweet.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Traffic (2000) 93% 3/4 “Epic in scope, intimate in detail, and as overpraised as it is engrossing.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% 3.5/4 “Ultimately, Lone Star is an appreciation of the cultural mix that makes Texas -- and America -- unique. The film says violence and prejudice are no match for love respect and humanity.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% 2/4 “The story and script by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce... is intentionally bare-boned, in contrast to the excessive visuals. But did it have to be so unwitty and uninteresting?” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Mulholland Dr. (2001) 84% 4/4 “It is part film noir homage, part failed-온라인카지노추천 pilot salvage job, part Persona-style art film and altogether utterly unique except, of course, in comparison to the past movies of David Lynch.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Jul 11, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% 2.5/4 “Is Magnolia -- writer-director Paul Thomas sprawling, emotionally supercharged follow-up to Boogie Nights -- a flawed triumph or a bold failure? It's a bit of both -- or at three hours in length, a lot of both.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Jun 30, 2023 Full Review The Truman Show (1998) 94% 4/4 “It is so perfectly realized, it's hard to believe someone hasn't presented this concept on the big screen before. ” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 14, 2023 Full Review Eve's Bayou (1997) 84% 3/4 “Smollett gives a tough but endearing performance as the King girl who learns, tragically, that families are not inviolable and invincible.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Jan 9, 2023 Full Review Rapture (1979) 100% 4/4 “A masterwork of Bava-esque colors, Bergmanesque dislocation and Cronenbergian raptures.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Souvenir Part II (2021) 90% 3.5/4 “In a decision that naysayers may find more ouroboros than onion (more self-cannibalizing than multi-layered), Hogg in her new film depicts the attempt to make a movie about her experiences (i.e., the first 'The Souvenir').” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Suicide Squad (2021) 90% 3.5/4 “Gunn's smart-aleck supervillain team adventure is a labor of twisted love bursting with genuinely funny sick jokes and sicker characters (Polka-Dot Man shoots out lethal polka dots). ” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Cryptozoo (2021) 71% 4/4 “The filmmakers employ watercolor, pencil and other techniques to painstakingly craft a not-safe-for-kids cartoon about a sort of 'Jurassic Park' for 'cryptids.'” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Candyman (2021) 84% 3.5/4 “Nia DaCosta's reboot/sequel retains the Chicago setting of its influential 1992 predecessor but relocates the shocks to a bougie-artsy 2021 milieu where talent and education ultimately provide no escape or defense from the racist past or present.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Card Counter (2020) 88% 3.5/4 “Another of Schrader's portraits of fracturing loner diarists trundling toward penitential violence.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Old (2021) 50% 3.5/4 “Fearsomely compelling until the final unnecessary 'twist' transforms a terrifying metaphor about the pitilessness of old age into what seems to be a pitch for a cable sci-fi series.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Vortex (2021) 92% 4/4 “'Vortex' casts Franoise Lebru and horror auteur Dario Argento as an elderly couple whose brains become as disordered as their book-and-memorabilia-crammed Paris apartment after the wife is stricken with dementia.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Petite Maman (2021) 97% 3.5/4 “Part fairy tale, part "Twilight Zone."” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Memoria (2021) 90% 3.5/4 “The climactic revelation is both awe-inspiring and deflating, retroactively and reductively recasting the woman's experience as more a puzzle than a mystery.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Dune (2021) 83% 3.5/4 “Mesmerizing for much of its 3-hour length - especially during its first half, when it prioritizes statecraft and intrigue and augurs and artful arrangements of strangely costumed individuals and strikingly designed alien vessels over fights and chases.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Last Duel (2021) 85% 3.5/4 “The climactic combat is motivated more by the knight's ego than by his concern for the welfare and honor of his wife.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Green Knight (2021) 89% 3.5/4 “Another haunting and profound enchantment from David Lowery.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Passing (2021) 91% 3.5/4 “The black-and-white photography exposes the absurdity of racial codification by reproducing every actors face in scales of gray.” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) 96% 4/4 “A vivid reimagining of history...” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Power of the Dog (2021) 94% 4/4 “False fronts and concealed identities poison lives and thus communities like a virus...” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% 3.5/4 “The film arguably does little that Welles didn't do in 1948 under the parsimonious oversight of Republic Pictures; but why argue with a new opportunity to experience the unbeatable combination of cinematic expressionism and Shakespearean expression?” – Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Feb 3, 2022 Full Review
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