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  Ran 1985

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Aug 2023

  I'm breaking my hiatus from Letterboxed for this one. I am so glad I got to see it the way o got to see it. I actually bought a new stand-alone 4k Blu Ray player to ensure the proper first-time experience watching this on my big new oled. And it did not disappoint. Definitely among the top of Kurosawa's oeuvre. And while there's no shortage of old-fashioned on-the-nose messaging, there's also plenty of subtle, devastating theming. The message here is as apt and timely as ever.

  Although I'm starting to think maybe that guy did not care much for women.

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  I ♥ Huckabees 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 29 May 2023

  I really like this movie a lot. Always have. Just revisited it for the first time since it came out, and I’m happy to report that it really holds up.

  But some of the ADR is distractingly insane.

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  Last Holiday 2006

  ★★ Watched 14 Feb 2023

  This…is not a good movie. Except for the bit where it’s so funny how she talks out loud to God and then she does it again but then she does it again until she ends up doing it again before she does it again and that whole time it never stops being hilarious.

  There’s lots of…these. And this is another one of them. I wrote this movie in real time as I watched it. I even saw my name in…

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  The Rapture 1991

  ★ Watched 06 Feb 2023

  I hated almost everything about this movie. It’s only redeeming feature is that, now that I have seen it, I can speak with authority on how bad it is.

  Mark Kermode, what are you thinking?

  Update: I changed my rating from .5 to 1 star after taking time to consider that this hot gar was at least competently made.

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