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  Dahomey 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Voiceover narration of the scriptures/spirits so literal it's silly. The actual debate of colonialism much more interesting and should have been developed much further.

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  Down with Love 2003

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  Better when knowing the references.

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  Godzilla Minus One 2023

  ½ Watched 04 Dec 2023

  The titular number is the score the film deserves. Extremely dubious politics, with fragile, self-victimizing, cry-baby Japanese ex-imperial male soldiers trying to make jingoism great again (this time as a private sector)--because a failed kamikaze attack is apparently not enough they need a second round to redeem themselves. For once I'd love to see a Japanese Godzilla film reflect on the country's own inflictions of atrocity onto others throughout modern Asian history, instead of forever externalizing its trauma as a…

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★ Watched 29 Oct 2023

  Another white feel-good, with such a despicable opening that sees the indigenous ritual leading to an ecstatic bath of oil, shot in slow-mo, followed by the Osage living the most upper middle-class life in the world, as "friendlier" capitalists. It's as if they invite their own murders by violating their ancestoral traditions. Another horrible moment is when the sisters talk about how their white husbands are after their money. Clearly they're all aware of such motivation, but it's all fine…

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