Category: reviews
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Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza jumps a notoriously difficult hurdle in that it luxuriates in nostalgia without coming across as horrifically self-indulgent. I’m sure that part of the reason why I watched Licorice Pizza with such kind eyes is the amount of credit that Paul Thomas Anderson has in the bank after Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood,…
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The Idiot
‘Beauty will save the world!’Prince Myshkin, The Idiot The Idiot was written in 1869, and despite it being one of Dostoyevsky’s most personal works, it also thoroughly reflects its time. There are references to Napoleon, the slow death of the Russian aristocracy (paving the way for the revolution), and theology, with Dostoevsky’s anti-Catholicism also shining…
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