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Recent reviews

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  The Lighthouse 2019

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 14 Feb 2025

  Historians will only say they were wickies

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  Emilia Pérez 2024

  ★★½ Watched 09 Jan 2025

  I’ve never seen worse choices made by a director. I honestly feel bad for Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofia Gascón

Popular reviews

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  Problemista 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 24 Aug 2024

  Sometimes modern movies scare me. It feels like so many of them are lacking a certain . . . zhuzh. Not to say a lot of them are horrible, but it never hits like it should. Too many films are just created a bunch of old white men who have never faced a single hardship.
  Problemista is exactly what we needed. It’s bright, refreshing, interesting, and beautiful. Julio Torres is a visionary. No one else could’ve made this film. Despite…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 21 Apr 2024

  This film was really good. 
  For people who are complaining about the apoliticalness, would you rather there have been a long, droning flashback sequence narrated by the main character, explaining everything in depth? The lack of exposition, at least for me, makes the movie more interesting and compelling. It isn’t about what starts wars. It’s about what happens during war and its affect. The start isn’t relevant. All we need to know is stuff went down, and that’s what we…

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