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  Anora 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  This is what living in Brooklyn is like

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  my pick for best picture

  
  (it’s the only one of the nominees I’ve seen)

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  Rocky 1976

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2024

  Watched this as part of an Italian American Excellence double feature with The Godfather. Fun to compare each of these movies dealings with the American Dream and American masculinity coming out of Nam. In the GF, Vito’s successful pursuit of the American Dream ultimately brings awful suffering for his family and community, even long after his death. In Rocky, the American Dream has become nothing more than a cynical marketing gimmick. Creed and his apparatus try to lure Rocky in…

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  NYAD 2023

  ★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2024

  It took Steph a full 45 minutes to realize this wasn’t a documentary

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