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  Skinamarink 2022

  ★ Watched 23 Mar 2023

  Horror is the film itself, not its genre.

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2023

  Intends to be epic, but doesn't convince. Despite that, the performance is deeply touching - a well-deserved Oscar - and the insights it advances are deep and necessary. Dread and hope coexist, but the latter perseveres.

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  Blizzard of Souls 2019

  ★★★½ Watched 07 May 2022 1

  The movie follows a 16 year-old Latvian boy who enlists into the Russian Empire Army in WWI after his country has been occupied by the Germans. Famous, tragic battles are depicted and the plot twists in war are historically accurate, despite a certain level of simplification owed to the movie's short length and nationalistic standpoint. I'm not into the "Instagram" film photography style nor into some of the romantic relief featured, but some scenes did move me, as the main…

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