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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★ Watched 30 Dec 2016

  This movie has a solid beginning and a decent ending, but there's a long middle section that just didn't work for me at all. Reading the reviews now, I'm wondering what I missed. Was Ryan Gosling's quest-to-save-jazz storyline not completely silly?

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  We Bought a Zoo 2011

  ★★★ Watched 16 Sep 2016

  I enjoyed this more than I expected to -- pretty cheesy, but it doesn't take itself too seriously. The brother character was pretty funny, I thought, and the emo son had some (possibly unintentional) great lines.

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  Smiley's People 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2016

  There's something about the character of the lonely Cold War spy that just plugs directly into my brain and makes me feel things. More than anyone, George Smiley just has that perfect balance of weary melancholia and smart, patient bad-assery.

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  The Seventh Seal 1957

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Dec 2015

  "Look in her eyes. Her poor brain's just made a discovery: emptiness in the moonlight."

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