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  Look Back 2024

  Watched 21 Mar 2025

  I think I need time to process this. Felt a lot longer than 59 minutes (in a good way).

  Feels like a magic trick how much emotion and authenticity is in less than an hour.

  I’m not sure how I feel about the “twist” (for lack of a better word without spoiling it). I think the absurdity was the point, but it felt like a little too much?

  Regardless, lovingly crafted, excellent music, and a central relationship that makes you reflect on the beauty of the few truly special connections and moments you can be lucky enough to have in your life.

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  Moulin Rouge! 2001

  Watched 27 Jan 2025

  Wow is there a lot to unpack…

  Certainly unique; I’m not sure exactly where I land on this one. I kind of couldn’t give in to the absurdity, but on a different day I might have 🤷‍♂️

  Edit: Okay here’s my main thought: this movie explicitly says it’s about love, they say love about a million times, but the love on portrayal here is just saying “I love you”. “Why” or “how” they love each other is never questioned or…

Popular reviews

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  Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

  Rewatched 28 Aug 2024

  Still kind of amazing this movie was made. So happy I got to see it in IMAX. A lot that I missed on the first watch pops out on the giant screen

  The music is incredible. The film is an excellent blend of action and personal storytelling.

  There’s no better way to describe how I’ve been feeling than Everything Everywhere All at Once and a film I needed to see again

  Unrelated: when I got let in the theater I was given a notebook and told not to ask why, I have no idea why this happened but fit the film well.

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  Strange Darling 2023

  Watched 25 Aug 2024

  Hard to separate the implicit politics from the film, honestly very alarming. I don’t know what the aim of the director was, but reads as a “has ‘me too’ gone too far?” pretty anti-woman film.

  Stylistically effective, but often excessive. Twist is obvious it’s a question of “how”, not what and the answer isn’t very satisfying. Final act stretched on for far too long.

  I can’t say there weren’t parts I enjoyed, but again the context renders it hard to feel good about any of it.

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