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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Feb 2025

  A reactionary right, that is gaining traction by promising to undo all you have done, might intuitively make a liberal faction want to nominate someone “sure to win,” not because they are popular but because they hold obscure political power in the shadowy corners of the upper echelon.  But elections are still popularity contests. And conniving, lying, unlikable figures, no matter how many strings they are able to pull, are unpopular. Counterintuitively, the smartest move for liberals is to rely…

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  Possession 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2025

  Well it’s happened again. I can only understand this movie as a complex metaphor for Germany during WWII and anything about love, relationships, sex, gender, personal life is completely lost on me.

Popular reviews

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  Holiday in the Sun 2001

  Watched 03 Apr 2020

  Met the dolphin in this movie. or so I was told.

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  Saltburn 2023

  ★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2023

  Exists at the intersection of Fellini and Lifetime Original movies, which should mean I love it. But it lacks the unabashed, campiness of Lifetime and the true, intimate depiction of the emotional desolation of the leisure class by Fellini. Plot was a problem—a lot of the time it felt like things were happening because someone thought it would be cool if they happened 

  It did have some visually nice moments and the performances were fantastic, especially Barry Keoghan who managed to…