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  The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021

  

  Hot Take Nick ★★★★½

  I had been excited for this ever since seeing the first mini trailer. And the hyped McDormand + Coen + Denzel combo did not disappoint in the slightest. 

  These performances.…

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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  

  Rafael Jovine ★★★★ 10

  THE MARVEL-OUS MOM AND SON SAGA Part 26

  Mom: Take those (damn) rings, man!

  I won't say more than what I said in my first review, but as you can…

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  Cyrano 2021

  

  Siegel™ ★★½ 8

  Cyrano is a movie of pure formalism, an adaptation that feels constricted to just going through the motions of the story being adapted – flamboyantly, confidently, but more resembling a…

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  A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935

  

  sakana1 ★★½ 17

  First and most importantly, the direction in which Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream took Puck made me wish violence upon everyone involved, and very nearly ruined the entire movie…

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  Vertigo 1958

  

  Jerry McGlothlin ★★★★½ 18

  2000th Film Logged on Letterboxd

  It’s kinda crazy to think I’ve watched 2000 films in my life (in reality, I have probably seen more, but that is the number I…

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  Serpent's Path 1998

  

  reibureibu ★★★★½ 15

  As bleak as his genre films but without incorporating any of the supernatural, this is Kiyoshi Kurosawa at perhaps his most nihilistic considering that unlike those others there is no…

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  Scream 2022

  

  Ian West ★★★½ 18

  My cousin took me to see Scream theatrically about a month or so after it’s December 1996 release and holy hell I loved every second of it… the packed house went…

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  Spies 1928

  

  sakana1 ★★★ 13

  There is only pure sensation, character development doesn’t exist.
  — Fritz Lang to Jean Domarchi and Jacques Rivette, 1959

  When Lang made this statement, he was speaking specifically of Spies,…