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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Sci fi has always been a good genre to explore anti-capitalist themes, as well as combining a melting pot of symbolism and high concept ideas together; from cult of personality leaders, to the infection of religion into politics, to the nature of the self and human rights, to unethical science.
  Granted, none of these ideas are explored as deeply or as finely as in Parasite, but they're introduced and explored enough to give this movie the satirical bite it needs…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Man this Bob Dylan guy is a real asshole. But I get it though. Some artist are more than happy to keep playing the hits and keep their fans happy, but what does that do to the integrity to your music, when they're played for demand and not for purpose?

  Very happy this biopic was so focused, rather than delving into the inevitable drug addiction and recovery era. It does open it up for the hellish studio mandated "A Complete Unknown 2: Woodstock Blues" though...

Popular reviews

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  In Camera 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Sep 2024

  Actors as a commodity, grinding down your self worth until you can be whatever the people with money need you to be, rewriting who you are until you're not who you want to be but who they want you to be.

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  On Falling 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  On existing in the utterly crushing gravity well that is being poor, and the degrading, debilitating things one does when trying to escape.

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