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FILM REVIEWS
Dec 14, 2024
MEGALOPOLIS
Francis Ford Coppola’s long gestating passion project Megalopolis combines garish visuals, truly horrible dialogue and vapid, overripe...
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Jul 12, 2024
L'EMPIRE (THE EMPIRE)
An incomprehensible Gallic comedy without a single joke that lands L’Empire cringingly blends sci-fi spoofs and social realism into a...
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Apr 7, 2024
DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS
Drive-Away Dolls is one of the oddest genre mash-ups I have ever seen: a barely watchable, unpleasant mix between an uninspired crime...
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Jan 17, 2024
LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS
The only problem the unwieldy new Michel Gondry film Le Livre des Solutions is likely to solve is chronic insomnia as its disjointed,...
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Nov 4, 2023
WHEN IT MELTS (HET SMELT)
Building up excruciatingly long to a pivotal scene you see coming a mile off, Flemish literary adaptation When It Melts is as predictable...
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Sep 29, 2023
COUP DE CHANCE
If Coup de Chance does indeed turn out to be Woody Allen’s final movie – as is mooted – then the quality of his first French-language...
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Aug 16, 2023
MEG 2: THE TRENCH
You have bad movies. You have inept movies. And then there is this god-awful sequel, which doesn't try to tell a coherent story or make...
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Jun 17, 2023
ASTEROID CITY
Wes Anderson takes his idiosyncrasies more than one step too far in Asteroid City, to the point of self-parody you might say, beit one...
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Feb 19, 2023
MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE
It would take too long to list everything that’s wrong with the unwatchable Magic Mike’s Last Dance, but a total lack of narrative is the...
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Feb 10, 2023
THE CHAPEL
Flemish film The Chapel is a damp squib because the screenplay would embarrass a first-year film student, let alone a helmer who once was...
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Oct 19, 2022
PETER VON KANT
If the narrative doesn't stop you from engaging with the film, the visual style will certainly do the trick: Peter von Kant is detached...
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Oct 18, 2022
HALLOWEEN ENDS
The movie builds up to a climax that deprives the audience of what the trailers have promised: a rewarding final confrontation with...
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Jul 24, 2022
THE GRAY MAN
The Gray Man is one of the most tedious, predictable, irrelevant movies I have ever seen in my life: it will put you firmly into a coma....
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