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  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★½

  • Mansfield Park

    ★★★

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    ★★★★

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  • Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park

    ★★★

    This one never quite takes off for me because it doesn’t really develop any of its hooks: fanny is a writer, but we get very little of her narration; slavery at times is the moral fulcrum of the film and other times completely ignored. The actors are wonderful, and all the Austen types are here. Harold Pinter at his most unctuous is fun and at times disturbing to watch. Still, worth a watch and I appreciate that they reached for something more with this adaptation.

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    ★★★★

    Less of a fun time than the American guy pierce version or the book, but a much deeper swimming pool. Get ready to cry.

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  • Bullet Train

    Bullet Train

    ★★

    Whatever brain disease guy ritchie and josh whedon have is contagious and must be stopped

  • The Muppet Christmas Carol

    The Muppet Christmas Carol

    ★★★★★

    A woman who taught some of the children of the elite in North Korean Society said something to the effect of, these children have no idea what the world is. They are condemned for their whole lives to this ignorance.” 

    I think of that when I see Scrooge in the past, at school choosing his “first profession”; and when I think of myself in my childhood; and when I see these maguh people, unhappy with their lives; and when I…

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