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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  AMC Lincoln Square 13 / DCP Dolby Cinema

  Dylan's meteoric early life and rise is given the glossy Hollywood Oscar-bait biopic treatment. On one hand, it serves to introduce new generations to Dylan's incredible songs, and on the other, manages to irritate "Dylan-ologists" with incorrect details about well-known facts and timelines. But that seems to be the point, in the movie, and as a thread throughout his career and life: misdirect, confound, and make sure we're only focusing on the…

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★½ Rewatched 27 Dec 2024

  While I love the soundtrack, I’m keeping my 3.5 for the movie. The in-your-face Easter eggs and the casting of Yeoh of Goldblum tarnish an otherwise fine picture. Ari and Cynthia are wonderful.

Popular reviews

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  Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 07 Jan 2023

  DCP / Film Forum

  About ten years ago, when I was working as a bookseller, we were tasked with running local events and selling books. I was sent to sell books for someone named Robert Caro, a name I recognized but couldn't place.

  When I got to the event and saw the tomes–The Power Broker, the Years of LBJ books–I recognized only Master of the Senate as a door-stopper that sat on my dad's bookshelf.

  After hearing Caro give an…

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  All That Breathes 2022

  ★★ Watched 23 Oct 2022

  Film Forum / DCP

  Subject matter was there along with beautiful and haunting imagery, but so much fell through in terms of action, drama, or any kind of tension.  The film is great at showing us these kind and humble men rescuing birds in Delhi, and so much is hinted at: the horrible air quality, religious tensions between Hindi and Muslim, and the men’s constant struggle of finding and treating the birds. However nothing is ever probed, nothing beyond the…