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Review of The Exorcist (1973)

By Blake P (935) on 03 Dec 2015

Horror movies are better when they play beach volleyball with our emotional capacity, and The Exorcist, one of the best of its kind, is a visceral…

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Review of Fight Club (1999)

By Blake P (935) on 03 Dec 2015

The hunt for grounded masculinity when surrounded by disaffection can be a tireless venture, and Fight Club, a kinetic black comedy with a…

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Review of The Big Lebowski (1998)

By Blake P (935) on 02 Dec 2015

So many comedies are forever doomed to rely on the laughs that follow a frenzied misunderstanding or a particularly well-placed one-liner,…

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Review of Sleepers (1996)

By Blake P (935) on 02 Dec 2015

A very tense and compelling story between revenge and friendship…

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Review of American Beauty (1999)

By Blake P (935) on 01 Dec 2015

I fear a mundane middle age more than I fear death…

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Review of A Star Is Born (1954)

By Blake P (935) on 25 Nov 2015

In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens, the central Selma (Björk) of Dancer in the Dark (2000) sighs as her world shatters before her…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 24 Nov 2015

I suppose I'm in the minority of kids my age who long for the days when they're behind in pop culture…

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Review of Before Sunrise (1995)

By Blake P (935) on 16 Nov 2015

Funny, engaging, thought provoking, and really well acted…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Blake P (935) on 12 Nov 2015

I have yet to see a movie as honest in its romance as Blue Is The Warmest Color, a modern-day arthouse masterpiece likely to change the way…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 11 Nov 2015

What is it about Gordon (Joel Edgerton) that makes him a menace of Peyton Mott caliber…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 11 Nov 2015

What is it about Gordon (Joel Edgerton) that makes him a menace of Peyton Mott caliber…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 11 Nov 2015

What is it about Gordon (Joel Edgerton) that makes him a menace of Peyton Mott caliber…

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Review of The Gift (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 11 Nov 2015

What is it about Gordon (Joel Edgerton) that makes him a menace of Peyton Mott caliber…

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Review of Tangerine (2015)

By Blake P (935) on 10 Nov 2015

Before I can begin my critique of Tangerine, let me start by applauding it for being one of the first films to be headlined by transgender…

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Review of Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

By Blake P (935) on 06 Nov 2015

Come on, now. Who do you think you're dealing with? A fucking idiot here…

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Review of Female Trouble (1976)

By Blake P (935) on 06 Nov 2015

The thing I like best about the films of John Waters is how free they are…

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Review of Georgia (1995)

By Blake P (935) on 04 Nov 2015

With Georgia being commended for featuring a performance from Jennifer Jason Leigh said to be her all-time greatest, I couldn't turn away from…

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Review of Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

By Blake P (935) on 31 Oct 2015

Paul Marzursky's slick hysterically funny satire about a disconsolate street vagrant, Jerry Baskin, played terrifically by Nick Nolte, who…

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Review of Sheba, Baby (1975)

By Blake P (935) on 29 Oct 2015

The fact that Sheba, Baby is the worst of the Pam Grier starring blaxploitation classics, the others being Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Friday Foster,…

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Review of Nora Prentiss (1947)

By Blake P (935) on 27 Oct 2015

A very bourgeois doctor with a very bourgeois family has a mid-life crisis (activated by his relationship with his daughter turning sixteen)…

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