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2003

★★★★ Watched 06 Jun 2025

A pitch-black night with no beginning and no end. Instead of a propulsive Hong Kong action thriller, this plays more like Toute Une Nuit with cops. The lighting is incredible throughout, particularly the contrast between the vast expanse of darkness hanging overhead, the pools of harsh light dotting the empty streets, and the sparse neon accents of ments and signs over shuttered storefronts. The effect is almost theatrical, which creates a fascinating juxtaposition against To's slickly cinematic camera movements, though…

2025

★★★★½ Watched 05 Jun 2025

Anatole Zsa-Zsa Korda is as perfect a role for Benicio Del Toro as M. Gustave was for Ralph Fiennes, making brilliant use of his imposing physicality, gruff demeanor and wry comic timing. But it's the shared gravitas between him and Mia Threapleton's Liesl that centers this film. Threapleton has an assured, ascetic delivery that feels at home in Anderson's landscape while adding a new rhythm to it. Their striking dynamic playing Korda's worldly bravado off of Liesl's wary piety crystallizes…

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1973

★★★★ 13

There is no surface on Earth that Elliott Gould can't use to light a match.

1975

★★★★ 8

watching this now is like watching ghosts making a movie about ghosts trapped in a house haunted by ghosts

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