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Recent reviews

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  Focus 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  a fun flick with some really good scenes surrounded by fluff and bumpiness

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  A Different Man 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Nov 2024

  So many brilliant levels to the story telling here.
  I wanted the film to keep going.

  The last few minutes weren’t as perfect but still good enough to hold this entertaining and thoughtful gem at 5 stars.

Popular reviews

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  Skinamarink 2022

  ½ Watched 16 Jan 2023 7

  It may be cliche to gripe that this is the worst movie I’ve ever seen but indeed it is. No question.

  For me, this flick had no redeeming factors whatsoever.

  I believe it hides behind its bold claims of “art” and supposedly being  “experimental” in hopes that people won’t notice how sorely the “microbudget” was missing a good writer. My son tells me that the fun for some is in figuring out the plot after-the-fact and I would think that’s…

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  Sound of Freedom 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 06 Aug 2023 1

  I don’t believe I’ve ever used the term “important” to describe a movie before but “Sound of Freedom” is definitely the most important movie out right now. As the credits and prologue wrapped, I couldn’t help but feel a bit sick that all of this summer’s attention has been directed at much lesser films like Oppenheimer when something so much more powerful exists (and Freedom is a film that the younger generation would likely find much more entertaining, moving, fulfilling,…

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