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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 04 Dec 2024

  There’s a Monty Python sketch about a joke so funny it kills anyone who hears and understands it. But the characters don’t simply laugh themselves breathless and asphyxiate, or anything like that. The idea is that, because our brains are complex machines with a bunch of proverbial “buttons and levers,” there’s some combination of words that presses certain buttons and pulls certain levers in such a way, that it just kills you. 

  That’s what this movie is like. The direction…

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  Villeneuve could make Interstellar, but Nolan could never make Arrival.

  Also Ted Chiang is the best sci-fi writer of our time and it’s not close.

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  Nightcrawler 2014

  ★★★★½ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  Jake Gyllehaal can do whatever shitty Michael Bay movies he wants. This shit is bone chilling and blood curdling. Maybe, subtly, the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.

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