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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Movies I Watched in March

All We Imagine as Light 2024 7/10

The Artifice Girl 2022 7/10

La bête 2023 6/10

Bleeder 1999 6/10

Chaos: The Manson Murders 2025 5/10

A Complete Unknown 2024 7/10

Conclave 2024 6/10

Daisy Kenyon 1947 6/10

De rockstar à tueur: le cas Cantat 2025 6/10

Deliverance 1972 7/10

The Electric State 2025 6/10

Fool Me Once 2024 6/10

Gladiator II 2024 6/10

Hotel Room 1993 6/10

Jagten 2010 7/10

Lost Highway 1997 10/10

A Man on the Inside 2024 6/10

Millennium season 1 1996 8/10

Moonfall 2022 4/10

Nickel Boys 2024 8/10

Nu astepta prea mult de la sfârsitul lumii 2023 7/10

On the Air 1992 6/10

Projām 2019 7/10

Red Rocket 2021 6/10

Le règne animal 2023 7/10

The Sign of the Cross 1932 6/10

Sweet Charity 1969 6/10

Des Teufels Bad 2024 7/10

Thought Gang: A Real Indication 1992 6/10

Toxic Town 2025 7/10

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 1992 8/10

Twin Peaks Season 2 1991 9/10

The Twister: Caught in the Storm 2025 6/10

Unfaithfully Yours 1948 6/10

The Wild Robot 2024 7/10

X Japan: Longing - Togireta Melody 1995 5/10

Zero Day 2025 6/10

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Phoenix (2014)

A disfigured Holocaust survivor sets out to determine if the man she loved betrayed her trust.

Intelligently plotted Vertigo-like post-war melodrama with excellent period detail and good cast explores on several levels the effects of Nazism and the war on German society.

Monday, August 1, 2022

Barbara (2012)

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Finely directed character study draws a well-observed, realistic depiction of Eat German society and life in the 1980s, a somber melodrama with a touching ending; Nina Hoss is fully convincing in the title role as a woman trapped in the restrictions, but also silently fighting against them.

Maltin***: "Quietly absorbing story...Not every questioned is answered in Petzold's intriguing character study, which also evokes the oppressive atmosphere of life under the watchful eye of the secret police at that time."

Friday, July 15, 2022

Jerichow (2008)

Trouble brews when a war veteran has an affair with a married woman.

Interesting variation of the The Postman Always Rings Twice story brings the tragedy realistically into a modern-day German setting, is suspenseful with a good cast, and comes up with its own new kind of twist) ending.