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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Nov 2024

  Acting!

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  Eephus 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I don't care much about baseball but I love a baseball movie. This is the best one since EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! but it resonates even more deeply than that one because these players are all amateurs, most of whom are in the bottom of the ninth of life.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 11 Mar 2025

  The Soderbergh / Koepp remix of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, TRUE LIES, THE THIN MAN, and THE IPCRESS file, with another David Holmes score. How could I not love this film enough to lie, steal, and/or kill for it?

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★½ Watched 23 Sep 2024 1

  Incoherent? Let's say post-coherent. It's not a 2.5-star film; it's a zero-star *and* a five-star one. An object lesson on the perils of letting an idea cook too long. A 138-minute opus that feels like a supercut of a 10-hour series. Still, I'm glad that after mulling this over for decades, Coppola didn't give us something that was just a sold, conventional, kinda boring film like, say, FERRARI (to cite the long-contemplated passion project by one of his near-contemporaries).

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