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Jon
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About Me

I’ve created a little movie review website of my own that I’d like you all to visit… just head over to cinematicreview.webs.com! It contains short reviews of mine, some already posted on here, some not, and I’d appreciate comments. Thanks!

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Swing-time

Swing Time

Two pas de deux: Astaire and Rogers and Victor Moore and Helen Broderick. The former provide breathtaking dance numbers, the latter glimmering comedic exchanges to match the screwball best. What a delight.

Favorite Films

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Metropolis

Metropolis

The-english-patient

The English Patient

Apocalypse-now

Apocalypse Now

The-silence

The Silence

Style

  • Auteur-driven
  • Melancholy
  • Serene & subtle
  • Fashionable alienation
  • Deliriously surreal
  • Other-worldly
  • Coming-of-Age

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Mark Garrett

4Nov12

Was brought to this profile via your SISTER defense, and then fell into your SISTER review, and then your MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE love.

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muleyhaven

15Nov11

really enjoyed ur review of "Naked"

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Sarah Karina-Bogart

1Jul11

I love your review of Super 8! Yes, Abrams gives into the cliche, but at least he gives into it with style!

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spartacula

28Jul10

thanks for the TOUCH reco on DIRTY COPPERS... don't know how i missed it.

Reviews

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Mon oncle d'Amérique

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Mon Oncle d’Amérique fits into a long lineage of films that adopt the human condition as their subject, locating sprawling philosophical, psychological, and existential currents in microcosmic…  read review

Mud

Mud

Mud is a mixture of dirt and water, solid and liquid, one belonging to the ground and the other forever flowing in variable patterns. It’s a fitting title for this earthy, elemental film, a coming…  read review

Les carabiniers

Les carabiniers

Les Carabiniers is an anti-war movie, and a hell of a good one at that, but it goes a step further to become an anti-war movie that criticizes the artificial bombast of other anti-war movies…  read review

Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

The tragedy of social stagnancy is elevated to scorching heights in Mamma Roma, Pasolini’s modern neorealist masterpiece. Anna Magnani is the titular Mamma, a carnal, overflowing embodiment…  read review

Ratings

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Mud

Mud

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

  • Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
Bang!

Bang!

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
Fuji

Fuji

  • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.