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  The Birthday 2004

  ★★★ Watched 02 Nov 2024

  “The world has turned and left me here
  Just where I was before you appeared
  And in your place, an empty space
  Has filled the void behind my face”
  
  It’s surreal watching The Birthday twenty years after it was supposed have been released. It feels very contemporary in its oddness, equal parts David Lynch and I Think You Should Leave. Had it been created today, it would’ve been released by A24 or Neon or Netflix or hell even Tubi and…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Oct 2024

  I hate the word masterpiece. You hate the word masterpiece. Masterpiece has lost all meaning. You might as well just stop talking and go in the corner with a coloring book after you’ve said that.

  So I won’t call The Brutalist a masterpiece, but it stuck with me in a deep way. Certain parts really stuck with me: the heroin fueled sex scene, the majesty of the stone quarry, the way Harris Van Buren (Guy Pearce) flitted effortlessly between kind…

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  At Long Last Love 1975

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  “It’s delightful… it’s delicious… it’s de-lovely…”

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 02 Dec 2024

  "I've seen things that will make Issac Newton crawl back into his mother's womb.”

  Hell yeah.

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Oct 2024

  “Stay close to your own people… Not these good middle-class folks out there; they hate your guts. You
  symbolize all the fears of this dark and broken time. They hate your guts. Could you feel it?”
  —The Running Man, Stephen King

  “I looked at my father, at his hands, his face, his eyebrows, and I knew that this man had nothing to do with me. He had sent me to that rich high school hoping that the ruler's attitude would rub…

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