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Recent reviews

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Mar 2025

  Theatrical rewatch. Those close-ups in the last five minutes are the club, and I’m the baby seal.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025 1

  Shhhh. Don’t move. He might stop making them.

Popular reviews

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  Trap 2024

  ½ Watched 01 Sep 2024 3

  As the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day. By the hour that's 2/24 or 8.33% of the time. More accurately by the minute, that clock is right 2/1440ths of the time. That's about 0.1388%. About one minute of this movie works in a truly effective way. I rounded up to a half star.

  (And when he's not being inexplicably directed to act badly, Hartnett is a really fine actor.)

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  Psycho 1960

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 12 Sep 2024 1

  New to this viewing, on a bigger screen than usual: really getting that Marion’s big mistake was triggering Norman - not by stumbling into the suggestion that his mother be institutionalized, but by inviting him into her room. The sexual undercurrents of the movie, that space behind her door, for example, were a thing I’ve always understood intellectually, but never felt. 

  Also, Martin Balsam is phenomenal in this movie. His entrance, in full extreme close up, is really something. He…