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A Christmas Tale (French): Dysfunctional family h(e)aven?
★★★★★★★★☆☆ Now how unassumingly elegant is this! Imagine The Royal Tenenbaums [without Wes Anderson's screaming "oh we are so quirky and dysfunctional, look at us: we are so funny!"] meets Noam Baumba… more →
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A Christmas Tale (French): Dysfunctional family h(e)aven?
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notsocynical wrote 1 month ago: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ Now how unassumingly elegant is this! Imagine The Royal Tenenbaums [without Wes Anderson' … more →
Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Crystal Skull
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “Fucking hell… Spielberg fucks up grandly in this mammothian, shabbily made disaster of an e … more →
The Wave (German)
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “One of those What-If drama-thrillers where a teacher who’s asked to lecture on autocracy for … more →
Up the Yangtze (Chinese)
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “Sobering docudrama chartering the life and changing times and fortunes of Chinese people dwel … more →
The Escapist
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notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “A slick and visceral Irish prison escape thriller with a jaw-dropping twist at the end that g … more →
Blindness
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: I watched the flick straight after reading Saramago’s book, and was visibly disillusioned: … more →
Cadillac Records
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Uneven and bland musical biopic chartering the early years of the grand-daddies of blues and … more →
Defiance
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Refreshing if a tad overlong and ultimately middling Holocaust drama about a team of brothers … more →
The Secret of The Grain/Couscous (French)
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “A refreshingly honest family drama about an immigrant family and its patriach that chronicles … more →
Rachel Getting Married
notsocynical wrote 9 months ago: “Evocative and incisive dysfunctional drama that’s as pitch perfect as Noam Baumbach’s Margot … more →
Nothing But The Truth
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Awesome! What was there not to like? Its a genre when done well gets me completely weak-kneed … more →
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “There are movies that I instantly gravitate towards, and VCB is one of them. Probably the lus … more →
Seven Pounds
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: I am myself surprised how high I’ve rated this, but it is what it is. I was swept away by its … more →
Speed Racer
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Another grossly misunderstood movie of the year and Wachowski’s second mis-marketed venture a … more →
Frozen River
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Every once in a while comes a movie that just illuminates an issue and the human condition wi … more →
The Reader
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “First off, I liked this unabashed Oscar-baiting Holocaust shark from the Weinsteins.. Much mo … more →
The Wrestler
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: Undeniably raw, but also painfully predictable biopic of a wrestler in his twilight years as he stru … more →
Changeling
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: Another of those dramas that suffers from a limp-second-half-syndrome that reduces a potential great … more →
Flight of the Red Balloon (French)
notsocynical wrote 10 months ago: “Soothing urban stream-of-consciousness contemplative piece from France that had so much famil … more →
