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torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 34m

Phantasm (1979) – Coscarelli’s headily imaginative low-budget mix, glued together by workable layers of free-floating trauma and anxiety

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 34m

Orlando, my Political Biography (2023) – Preciado’s vibrantly fluid and intelligent work of enactment, criticism, testimony, celebration

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 35m

Murder, my Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944)

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 22h

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) – much of Van Dyke’s emblematic, carnally-charged movie remains logistically (if not attitudinally) impressive

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 22h

Weathering With You (2019) – Shinkai’s beguilingly conceived & realized expression of teen hope & fragility, for a climate-fatalistic world

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 22h

Stanley & Iris (Martin Ritt, 1990)

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Amusement Park (1975) – Romero’s effectively immediate catalogue of aggressions, rather amusingly wrapped in public service garb

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Man who Sold His Skin (2020) – Ben Hania’s uneasy and stilted quasi-satire leaves one more exasperated than challenged or informed

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 2d

Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979)

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 3d

Battle Circus (1953) – Brooks’ pre-MASH Korean medic drama has sufficient weary authenticity to surmount some strained human dynamics

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 3d

Intimacy (2001) – for all its artificiality and over-calculation, Chereau’s film pulsates with empathetic curiosity and investigative acuity

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 3d

Superman (James Gunn, 2025)

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Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray, 1973)
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torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 4d

Too Wise Wives (1921) – despite its societally rarified setting, Weber’s film pulsates with marital frustration and economic insecurity

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 4d

In Water (2023) – Hong’s brief film is evasive even by his standards, and yet ultimately possessed of almost supernatural certainty

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 4d

Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964)

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torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 5d

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) – a considerably over-extended but serendipity-touched drama, overseen by an energetically in-the-zone Lumet

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 5d

Village of Doom (1983) – Tanaka’s drama feels insufficiently incisive at times, but the bloody final stretch is chillingly well-realized

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 5d

Coma (Bertrand Bonello, 2022)

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 6d

Adam’s Rib (1949) – Cukor’s classic is expertly calibrated when in full flow, the underlying ideological debate still productively tangled

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 6d

A Radiant Girl (2021) – Kiberlain’s heartbreaking, ethically lovely film crafts an intimately personal perspective on France’s wartime shame

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 6d

Two Sisters from Boston (Henry Koster, 1946)

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 7d

Countdown (1967) – Altman’s Altman-effacing early drama gets the job done, while feeling persistently familiar even if you’ve never seen it

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 7d

La danse (2009) – a largely celebratory Wiseman work, prioritizing rehearsal and (often stunning) performance over institutional dissection

torontomovieguy.bsky.social @torontomovieguy.bsky.social · 7d

To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes, 1976)