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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Black Bag keeps things simple. Intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse (Cate Blanchett) is suspected of betraying her country, and her husband George (Michael Fassbender), also a spy, must decide: stay loyal to his marriage or his nation? You know, just your typical "should I turn my love over to the government?" dilemma. We've all been there.

  Black Bag is mainly talk. If you enjoy watching British intelligence officers chatting over dinner or in dimly lit rooms, dissecting cryptic clues, and talking…

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  Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Before watching this movie, I had never heard of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I assumed he was either a 19th-century opera singer or a guy who invented a new kind of waffle iron. Turns out, he was a theologian who stood up to the Nazis, which is significantly more impressive than making breakfast appliances.

  The film paints a rich and visually stunning portrait of Bonhoeffer’s faith in the face of overwhelming evil. We see the moral struggle of a man who refused…

Popular reviews

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  The Happytime Murders 2018

  ½ Watched 23 Aug 2018

  Set in a world where humans and puppets co-exist, THE HAPPYTIME MURDERS sets out to be an old fashioned Bogart-type film that sees a disgraced ex-cop turned tough private detective having to team up with his old police partner to solve a series of murders.

  Phil Philips was the first puppet to serve on the L.A. police force when a mishap involving his partner Melissa McCarthy a few years previously brings much shame on him and the department.

  Now a…

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  The Nun 2018

  ★★½ Watched 03 Sep 2018

  It's 1952. When a nun takes her own life under horrifying circumstances in a Romanian Abbey, the Vatican sends their go-to priest Damian Bichir and young perky soon-to-take-her-vows novice nun Taissa Farmiga to investigate.

  When they arrive at the small superstitious town near the Abbey, they meet up with handsome young trader Jonas Blochet who had discovered and reported the incident. He explains that even though deliveries are made regularly to the Hogwarts-like castle that is home to the order…