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  Drive 2011

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 19 Feb 2025 3

  Drive is often praised as a sort of fetish object, an aesthetic-driven pastiche of neon and noir. And it surely is that! The style is irresistible. But what keeps me endlessly enthralled is Gosling's beguiling performance as a lone wolf who is either pure of heart or a total sociopath. He has this almost plastic quality- a perfect recreation of movie star actors from Le Samourai or Rebel Without a Cause. But his vacant, unblinking eyes rob him of any…

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  Official Competition 2021

  ★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  Fun dark comedy setups with good performances and a few laugh-out-loud moments. Also a bit repetitive with its outrageous displays of egoism. Takes a few dramatic swings in the last third that don’t really pan out.

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  The Batman 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2022 5

  Not perfect, but the most enthralled I have been with a super hero movie since at least Infinity War. This is most likely because this really isn't a standard super hero movie, it is more like 40% David Fincher serial killer saga, 30% film noir, 20% political conspiracy movie, and maybe 10% men-in-tights superhero movie. Despite these varying flavors, I thought the movie did a great job (for the most part) of maintaining its gritty, grimy, straight-faced tone. The cinematography…

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  Battle for Sevastopol 2015

  ★★★ Watched 27 Oct 2021

  Engaging enough. Fascinating story but frustratingly surface level. Has a strange fixation on Pavlichenko's love interests.