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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  For all the hubbub about this thing's runtime, it's really a nonissue. My crazy ass honestly wouldn't have minded another hour of this, there are genuinely still parts that felt like they could have been expanded upon. Not that it doesn't use time well, because it does! It flows pretty quickly and nothing here really feels superfluous, which is actually pretty remarkable for a film of this length. I guess the only problem with a movie this long is that…

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  The Father 2020

  ★★★★★ Watched 10 Apr 2021

  I don't blame anyone for dismissing this as being oscar bait from the outset, hell I don't blame you for writing this off completely for that reason, but uh, this is completely incredible. It takes cinematic storytelling techniques like an unreliable narrator and nonlinear chronology and uses them in a way that brings to life the feeling of dealing with dementia/alzheimers. The way the film is shot and told completely immerses the viewer into the life of someone dealing with…

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  BlackBerry 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 29 Jun 2023

  This movie essentially takes two movies and melds them into one. One of those movies is a damn good biopic about the rise and fall of BlackBerry, one that doesn't do anything too unique for the genre but has really good performances and a story that has a better hook than the other brand-based movies that have come out this year (a company that was a wild success almost by chance, that had its life cut short by the biggest…

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