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Recent reviews

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  Black Bag 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  i've been admiring a lot of movies recently, been a long time since i've enjoyed one this much

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  Runaway Jury 2003

  Watched 14 Mar 2025

  this was pretty much the longest movie ever

Popular reviews

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  Pianoforte 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Jan 2023 1

  Chopin was a madman who could squeeze even the most viscous romanticist drama out of punishingly athletic piano technic. This makes his repertoire perfect for the ultimate irony that is an international piano competition for teens and young adults. “I don’t care about expressing myself through music” one contestant insists: “I just want to be the best.” But success in a chopin competition cruelly — even impossibly — requires both.

  The director of Pianoforte acknowledged before and after the screening…

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  Heretic 2024

  Watched 23 Nov 2024

  took me back. I was sitting in a guy’s apartment once and he reached into a pot of boiling water to grab the egg he was making. It made me profoundly uncomfortable. I know it comes across as just a silly anecdote for a silly letterboxd review, but I was legitimately concerned for my wellbeing at the time.