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I could point to about a dozen fairly consequential plotholes, loose ends, and issues with the set-up, but I liked it a lot anyway. I almost prefer that the movie left so much for us …
The crap I have to watch for work sometimes… Better than I expected, but still not very good, although in the filmmakers’ defense it is, I think, enormously hard to put this story on film …
Meh. I wanted to like it; Campbell and Pitoc are quite charming in it, although they don’t have a ton of chemistry. But while it got certain things perfectly right (the teeny apartments, the rando …
It’s long, it’s dull, Julie Andrews and Paul Newman have about as much chemistry as two stale cookies — and the score is completely nutty, too, with a bunch of chirpy oboes and blatty horns …
It’s not a particularly well-regarded Hitchcock; the charge usually leveled at the movie is that it’s too slow, but with the exception of the flower-cart scene, I disagree. It’s more that the plot is a …
One of those movies that’s sort of a trifle, but that works completely on that level. Plus, after you’ve seen Diner umptillion times, it’s gratifying to see the tertiary characters popping up again (aw, Bagel) …
Excellent movie, which I’d never seen before. So many scenes where you want to hit pause just to admire the shot. Orson Welles’s acting is a little off in spots, but it’s still really good …
I couldn’t get through it; I gave up an hour in. I really really liked Days of Heaven, and the meditative, fragmented way he puts the story together is very similar, but I just could …
It took me a while to get accustomed to Morris’s style of putting the story together; I hadn’t seen one of his films in a while and I forgot that they aren’t as straight-ahead as …
It sucked, made not one iota of sense, and had so much Tangerine Dream encrusted on the score that we could barely hear the sucky and nonsensical dialogue in the second place. Tempus will never …