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  Thief 1981

  ★★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Only Michael Mann could make a used car lot and a bus to Des Moines look super cool.  Yes and one of the best soundtracks ever…

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  Heat 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Pretty sure this has cracked my top ten of all time - Michael Mann at the height of his powers exploring the mess that is modern masculinity; Robert de Niro’s best performance since the 70s; brilliant soundtrack; best heist gone wrong scene of all time; Alex Colville references - the list goes on.  Just watch it…

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  Black Widow 2021

  ★★★ Watched 12 Jul 2021

  Starts strong with a good spy thriller vibe and then transitions into absurd family reunion - with a great comedic performance by David Harbour as a washed-up Soviet-era superhero. But the final act descends into ridiculous, sense-defying clatter. The main story is pretty simple though at times you are forced to go through memory banks to remember what happens in the MCU Civil War movies - an escapist super hero movie should not be that much hard work - nor…

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Chopin soundtrack rocks, Kieran Culkin will almost certainly get the Oscar and, personally, a Rwandan Jew from Winnipeg makes perfect sense…..

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