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  • Flow
  • Akira
  • Blade Runner
  • Ghost in the Shell

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  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★★

  • A Real Pain

    ★★★½

  • The Apprentice

    ★★★½

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  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    Giving this four because I feel like I keep giving movies 3.5 as a cop out.

    Would never have expected to be so riveted by a papal pulp. Visual eye candy and the ending is just so perfect. Catholicism ain't so bad after all.

    Also what is with John Lithgow being such a bad guy all the time. Can't stop thinking about Cliffhanger.

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★★

    A masterpiece. Gints MUST have played Ico because this is that game incarnate, right down to the the sunny washed PS2 graphics. The emotional journey it takes you on without a drop of dialogue had me at times near tears. 

    Might actually be my favorite movie of this year or even last. Looking forward to watching it again.

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  • Civil War

    Civil War

    ★★

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: The Movie. Made me want to play a video game so bad. Absolutely glorified war and violence. What was the point of making this? I'd quit cinema as a director after making this too.

  • Eno

    Eno

    ★★★★

    Watched three times in a row (for the 24 hours of Eno event) so it's safe to say that I've "seen" it.

    The technical achievement of this movie is also a hint at why it is just so-so as a documentary - it's more a collaborative auto-documentary by the subject himself than anything comprehensive which is to say, it left me wanting more. 

    I haven't seen Rams, but I think Hustwit is better suited for taking seemingly mundane topics and…

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