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  • A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

  • Arrival

    ★★★★★

  • Blade Runner 2049

    ★★★★★

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    ★★★★★

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★★

    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…

  • Arrival

    Arrival

    ★★★★★

    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

    Nightcrawler

    ★★★★½

    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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