Mary Poppins (1964)
There is a version of this review where I try to explain, analytically, why Mary Poppins works.
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Bugonia (2025)
I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the better part of a decade dodging Yorgos Lanthimos movies.
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Rear Window (1954)
Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.
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42nd Street (1933)
Sometimes movies of great historical import, turning points in the development of the medium, are tough to sit through.
Mar 2, 2026
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