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  No Other Land 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  There are many remarkable things about this movie, but I could not escape Basel’s recollection about power being all that matters.

  This is a movie that captures the cowardice of the powerful in the face of the courage of the powerless, on its own. But it takes on a meta commentary when coupled with the fight for distribution in the U.S. and the backlash against Basel and Yuval’s Oscars acceptance speech which sought accountability, empathy and co-existence. There is no…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  A fun watch, but left wanting more from Bong than a way too literal satire of Trumpist politics.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 11 Jan 2025

  Pennsylvania giveth and Pennsylvania taketh away; a staggering, beautiful movie I’ll be thinking about and feeling for a while.

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  The Beast 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Dec 2024

  If David Lynch made a crossover between Her, Ex Machina, and Past Lives. A movie about what makes us human at a time when we seem to be losing that very thing.

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