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I really never got the big whoop about Audrey Hepburn. Now I get the big whoop about Audrey Hepburn.
I would have given this movie an A-minus, but the framing voice-over busts it down to a flat B. Why do filmmakers DO that? We don’t NEED it! Leave some goddamn ambiguity; let us feel …
It isn’t as creepy as the American remake, but it holds together a lot better when you think back on it, because it doesn’t feel bound to explain every little thing; it lets you assume …
The movie doesn’t make any kind of sense, and yet I spent the next 24 hours creeped out beyond belief. The “killer video” itself is so incredibly unsettling, and the tinny music on it…[shudder]. I …
Slower than I’d like — it’s nearly half an hour before there’s fight contact of any kind — and horribly stagy, but still worth watching, for three reasons: 1) the wardrobe, which is ’73 to …
It took a little while to get going, and certain payoffs weren’t quite earned, but I really liked the kid and I really liked Judy Davis; I don’t think her character was written with as …
It’s probably really wrong that 1) Jeffrey Combs reminds me of Stephen Colbert and 2) that’s part of why I loved the movie, but hey, I gotta be me. Plus the pervy zombie head is …
I like Jamie Foxx a lot, and this is impressive work, especially the singing; he’s getting the Oscar for sure. But the movie pointed up the problem with all bio-pics, which is that the movie …
No movie with a scene in which John Malkovich 1) gets pelted with fish, then 2) disses Terry Kinney can be all bad, but this one is pretty damn bad. It’s derivative, it tries too …
Words cannot describe how much I loved this movie as a kid; I probably watched it twenty times, and it always gave me that “FUCK yeah!” feeling in my stomach. Well, I watched it again, …