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Recent reviews

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  Inside Llewyn Davis 2013

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 30 Jan 2025

  There’s that one quote about how you can’t introduce The Great Gatsby to high schoolers (when most Americans I know were introduced to it) because you need to experience loss or failure or grief first to truly understand its impact. The same can be said for this film.

  With more years to sink in, I can confidently call this one of the best films of the 2010s and maybe ever?

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  I gotta get back to the real shit I wanna say sometimes because I think there is a conversation to be had

  but

  I think it’s important to receive the perspective of those in the industry: angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor

  and

  I understood what the director is trying to do with an allusion to a past. Strongly felt the ending didn’t need a full release, maybe just a further break in the crack

  also

  poor video game controller acting. but greatest backflip in cinematic history

Popular reviews

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  Brokeback Mountain 2005

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2025

  A movie I consistently turn to when I think about the child I was and what I hoped to accomplish in this life. Making a work of art that led to a truly seismic shift in culture that left us all for the better. There was before Brokeback Mountain, when hate, fear, bigotry, and homogeneity were widely accepted and even encouraged. Then there was after, though it still took several years before acceptance prevailed. Some filmmaking decisions I feel have…

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  Babylon 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 06 Dec 2023

  Insanely underrated wtf

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