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| 45 30% | The Warriors (1979) - Rated 10 Jan 2024 |
| 79 80% | Body Heat (1981) - Rated 02 Jan 2024 |
| 87 92% | The Apartment (1960) - Rated 26 Dec 2023
"So well written . . . . Good score, too. I never would have imagined that one of the all-time great cinematic rapturous love sprints would be performed by real-life harpy Shirley MacLaine, but turns out she played a young woman well. Jack Lemmon put in a sterling performance in this (and he didn't sour with age). This movie is a fascinating time piece and holds up well, deserving its several Academy Awards."
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| 75 75% | Vertigo (1958) - Rated 26 Dec 2023
"The most putang-getting septuagenarian in the history of cinema is back with his trademark pencil-neck and warbly voice, as a grimly brooding Jimmy Stewart presages future generations of weird, emotionally fragile San Franciscans humorlessly chasing their own mental demons for public display. Extremely melodramatic movie, very stylized (people do not act this way in real life), confusing plot. Perfect movie to play in the background at a "cool" bar."
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| 55 47% | Defiance (2008) - Rated 19 Nov 2023 |
| 40 22% | Ice Station Zebra (1968) - Rated 04 Sep 2023 |
| 51 41% | Lifeguard (1976) - Rated 06 Jul 2023
"Not a theme I remember having seen much of-- the aging underachiever at a fork in his life's road. That serious theme is overlaid upon lots of light beach action that is made the more interesting for being so very dated in style and attitude. Decently written and scored. Sam Elliott is not-- I repeat-- is NOT a cowboy in this movie, and that fact alone is a novelty. The movie poster showed on this page is not true to the tone of the movie. The movie is more substantive than the poster suggests."
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| 58 51% | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) - Rated 30 Jun 2023 |
| 38 20% | Arrival (2016) - Rated 17 Jun 2023
"The pervasive use of weepy flashback interrupts the story's flow. The central premise (the main character's oracular abilities) overburdens the audience's suspension of disbelief since that plot element is incorporated into the already fantastical notion of space aliens. The story structure is a low, angst ridden ramp concluded with a rushed, complicated explanation. In sum-- story structure problems and too much soggy, weepy sentimentality, infused with a healthy heaping of leftism."
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| 15 2% | Significant Other (2022) - Rated 14 Jun 2023
"This one had potential but just goes off the rails. Bad script, fatally flawed when . . . [redacted for spoiler purposes]. The movie veers into silliness and it kills the mood as jarringly as a fart during one's wedding vows."
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