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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024 6

  After waiting impatiently since 2021 — it’s finally here! Somehow, it managed to exceed my unfairly high expectations. Future generations will wonder what it would have been like to be alive when the masterpiece Dune: Part Two was first released (for anyone who might read this in 2074: it was glorious).

  Boasting staggering visual effects, a gorgeous score by Hans Zimmer, orgasmic sound design, and one of the greatest contemporary casts ever assembled, this is a triumphant spectacle to behold. Sweepingly…

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  The Room 2003

  ½ Watched 05 Feb 2022 1

  11 out of 10

  “If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.”

  When you consider the number of films that have been produced in the last one hundred years, very few of them have staying power. Many films seen as superior to The Room fell quickly into obscurity. Is it possible that it goes deeper than just being “so bad that it’s good”? Could it actually be a masterful study of…

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  The Score 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 26 Mar 2025

  An unexceptional story with a very exceptional cast.

  This was the great Marlon Brando’s final role in a film. It’s also the only time Brando and De Niro ever performed together. Those reasons alone make The Score worth seeing.

  It doesn’t measure up to the very best, classic heist films, but it has its moments when it’s totally engaging, and a lot of fun to boot.

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  Death of a Unicorn 2025

  ★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025 1

  It’s been a chore to try and come up with a thoughtful review about why this didn’t land, but the short answer is simple enough: it isn’t thematically satisfying. Now, the themes are obvious from the get-go, but when the resolutions are all laid out at the end, they are both unearned and unfelt. The story doesn’t say much that isn’t explicitly said in the dialogue. And, in general, the eat-the-rich angle is getting soggy.

  The introduction of the titular…

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  Longlegs 2024

  ★★ Watched 11 Jul 2024 5

  It’s a risky thing to hype a movie up to such tremendous levels… one would hope that a check wasn’t written that couldn’t be cashed. When Longlegs was mentioned in the same sentence as Silence of the Lambs in early reviews (and a few others such as Se7en), well, it’s about as bold a comparison as can be made. It’s also rather unfair to the movie in question; now the audience will be holding it to a ridiculously high standard.…

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  Origin 2023

  ★ Watched 08 Jan 2024 2

  Instead of adapting the bestselling nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” into a documentary, Ava DuVernay made the vastly inferior decision to fictionalize a narrative of the authors life as she researches for her book… and the result is a pandering, didactic, and emotionally manipulative slog. Origin is filled with totally tasteless dramatizations (bordering on maddening) of scenes such as a lynching and the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman. Besides interrupting the narrative flow,…