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  EO 2022

  ★½ Watched 19 Dec 2024

  The filmmaker evidently loves Terrance Malik films and Donkeys, but hates everything else, believing any iota of joy needs to be quickly crushed by recognizing the word humanity is an oxymoron.

  The kind of movie that makes you dislike everyone including yourself.

  Boo.,

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  I Saw the TV Glow 2024

  ★★½ Watched 07 Nov 2024

  A few dozen very cool ideas strung together poorly.

  The film is very clearly about discovering one's identity, the isolation of that search, and fear of true expression to the point of dissociation.

  Even though I struggle with them much less now, I know these feelings well.

  So, I love the ideas of story they were trying to tell and many of the snapshot moments they conceived to tell it. But it just didn't quite all glue together.

  Even if…

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★½ Watched 15 Jun 2024

  After loving the first film, this was so disappointing. Though still visually stunning, it was in such a rush to tell the story and flip through head shots of temporally significant actors that it was more story board than story, more montage than movie.

  Character's arcs were so jagged they seemed capricious. The passing of time was inconsistent and near indecipherable - for how long does this talking baby gestate?! And speaking of forever gestating babies, Chalamet was acceptable in…

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2024

  The first third gave us sweet potential, the second a melancholy compromise, but the third...the third defined love, transcendant.

  So well cast, so delicately written, so gorgeously scored, and so beautifully shot...

  I can't think of anything else like it.

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