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• The Birds

  The Birds 1963

  

  DrewMcWeeny 1

  This is Allen's big birthday movie. I just got the 4K Blu-ray set of four Hitcock titles, and this is one of them. He's never seen it, but he really…

• Southland Tales

  Southland Tales 2006

  

  I. Simon ★★★★

  [Theatrical Cut]

  Wild how Richard Kelly accurately predicted Trump’s America over a decade before he was elected.

  This is a bonafide mess, one that is terribly edited, hugely incoherent, sorely…

• Raspberry

  Raspberry 2021

  

  Amy ★★★★

  I certainly did not expect the way that this short film went, but I certainly appreciate it. This film somehow is able to balance the tones perfectly and create an…

• Lovers Rock

  Lovers Rock 2020

  

  Dawson Joyce ★★★★★

  Amazon and the BBC's Small Axe anthology series continues the fantastic path set forth by Mangrove with its second installment, Lovers Rock, which may not be Steve McQueen's very best…

• Lovers Rock

  Lovers Rock 2020

  

  I. Simon ★★★★ 4

  2020 Ranked

  Without a doubt one of the most genuinely romantic films I’ve seen in recent memory. Despite being completely different from anything else he’s ever done structurally and tonally,…

• Tenet

  Tenet 2020

  

  I. Simon ★★★★★ 21

  2020 Ranked

  Inception + MIAMI VICE + the frantic pacing and suspense of DUNKIRK = Tenet

  Christopher Nolan’s best, most ambitious, most complex, most exciting, and most satisfying effort to…

• Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

  Once Upon a Time in Venezuela 2020

  

  Kip Mooney ★★★½

  Made with passion and righteous indignation, but you may need to brush up on environmental science and Venezuelan politics to get the full weight.

• Sanzaru

  Sanzaru 2020

  

  Karen Wan ★★★★

  I really enjoyed this slow burn intergenerational trauma story with the world of the living and that of the dead, seemingly separate, actually interweaving. This isn't a haunting, but there's…