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  Presence 2024

  Watched 28 Feb 2025 1

  remember when soderbergh said he wanted to make the most “purely pleasurable” film experience with ocean’s eleven?

  there’s elements of that pure feel-good pleasure here in chris sullivan playing the world’s best dad. and more recently, i recall, in the soft love between meryl streep and her nephew lucas hedges in let them all talk. and in that all-knowing rapport between andre holland and bill duke in high flying bird. between jennifer ferrin and devin ratray in mosaic. purely pleasurable!…

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  Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005

  Rewatched 18 Nov 2024 1

  a nostalgic feel-good comfort viewing for me. used to watch it in high school, recorded from IFC on my dad’s bootleg hard drive-upgraded TiVo during the on months when we had cable TV.

  for a summer or a year, IFC had some sort of agreement with criterion or janus and was showing classics like l’avventura, the spirit of the beehive, and the seventh seal, alongside lo-fi mumblecores and true indies like the delicate art of the rifle and me and…

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  We Don't Live Here Anymore 2004

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Sep 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Deep Water 2022

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  be patient, stick with it, because around 90 minutes in, Deep Water quickly assumes the form of camp and it’s quite funny. there’s several hints, but i’d say it fully begins with the scene when tracy letts’s character and his wife tell their daughter to leave the table at least 4x in a row. if you’re into slapstick, allow yourself to sink into the lite tension - your ultimate payoff will be the chaotic ben affleck bike chase scene.