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  Red Rooms 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  left a really indelible impression on me. The intensity of the poker / auction scene just impossible to write and shoot and make as dynamic and thrilling as it was, a scene w no actual movement or dialogue. Her face did everything. And then Her face watching the movie in the red light. Her face w the braces in the schoolgirl fit in the courtroom. The defendant’s unsettling limp husk stirring to some little bit of life to wave at…

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  Anora 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 29 Dec 2024

  I loved the first act so much. Ivan steals every scene he’s in, that actor is fucking incredible. Too long (evergreen critique of basically all movies made this millennium) and I feel like it was written by man (I have no idea if it was written by man) because it was like “this is not a movie about Ivan this is a movie about Anora so we don’t need to tie a bow on Ivan’s story!” But thru acts 2-3…

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  Rope 1948

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Dec 2023

  Insane this was made in 1948. Could have been made yesterday.

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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Dec 2023

  “To Arthur, you’re the one who stays.” Phew. Honestly perfect. A small clean real story perfectly written, directed, acted, shot, scored. 

  Also Arthur’s book is called BONER lmao

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