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Recent reviews

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  The Lost King 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Oct 2022

  Intuition and feeling leads to discovery and rebirth, not men or institutions of "logic".

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  Top Gun: Maverick 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 25 May 2022

  A beautiful and bitterwseet dream, full of yearning and rumination. The perfect union of movie star and character, subject and medium.

Popular reviews

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  The Firm 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 09 May 2020 1

  "Sociology is the study of social problems. Now you, you got a big social problem, boss."

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  The Naked Spur 1953

  ★★★★ Watched 12 May 2020

  Mann, above all other directors of the era, understands the pathos of violence. The empty, extended silence after the shootout with the Indians, the donkey licking the corpse of it's executed master. Impactful stuff.

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