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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  This really made me question whether great filmmakers, who have created remarkable films in their own language and country, should take the risk of making films for an entirely different market — with a foreign language, a foreign cast, and an unfamiliar audience…

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  Oh, Canada 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  Does suffering always need to have meaning? How much can we truly trust our own memories as time erodes and reshapes them? And can one ever genuinely feel like a good person when burdened by the weight of past mistakes? 

  This film is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory and the passage of time. Richard Gere’s character, a documentary filmmaker, revisits a past riddled with missteps, and the way his story unfolds is subtle yet profound — sometimes tangled, sometimes…

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★ Watched 11 Feb 2025 1

  I didn’t expect to watch a film about Bob Dylan and end up caring about every single character more than the protagonist himself. But the problem isn’t merely that he lacks depth or complexity — the problem is that he’s simply unlikable. And I can’t decide whether to place the blame on Timothée Chalamet (whose casting I was already skeptical about from the start) or on James Mangold’s curious directorial choice to keep him “a complete unknown.”

  Rather than offering…

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  Gladiator 2000

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2025

  Yet another film that makes me wonder: is Ridley Scott really that great a director? Or was he just lucky enough to land good scripts and great actors? Film bros, please don’t come after me…

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