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  • The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

  • The Northman

    ★★★½

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

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  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    Really stunning movie.

    Adrien brody is fantastic, felicity jones is so magnetic, and I’m sure guy pearce is a good person but no one else in the biz plays lil weaselly creeps like he does and we love to see it!!!

    I was reading some reviews that take issue with the epilogue being a bit jarring/abrupt, but its the last puzzle piece that clicks into the character motivations that we’ve seen shadows of and that Laszlo would never speak to if we followed him for 3 more hours.

  • The Northman

    The Northman

    ★★★½

    Enjoyably epic and bloody, movie was at its best when bringing in the weirder mythology touches (or unexpected bits of humor)

    I felt a bit of indifference towards this movie that I can’t quite put my finger on, but I recognize it across all three of the Eggers movies that I’ve seen. They are all interesting and visually stunning but have a kind of cold, clinical detachment from the worlds that they’re introducing.

    With The Witch and The Lighthouse that…

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★★★

    Was a bit skeptical of the hype, but this was one of the most enjoyable theater experiences I’ve had in a while. It was so fun to track an actual crescendo in the audience response, from a few uncertain chuckles in the opening minutes to full-out laughter and tearful sniffles at the end.

    It somehow takes the quiet framework of a simple family drama and stretches its borders across the scale of an the entire universe. This movie should constantly be…

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