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  House of Flying Daggers 2004

  ★★½ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Shakespearean to a fault. Half of this movie is CGI slo-mo daggers cutting through the air.

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  Flow 2024

  ★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Perhaps if I was more artistically inclined I would appreciate this flick more. The animation didn’t wow me, but the cat did have some great personality and expression in its face. Overall it kind of felt like a long string of video game cut scenes.

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2024

  As a huge fan of the novels I was worried that it would be impossible to faithfully adapt the last half of the first book in this film. 

  Was Dune Part 2 a 100% faithful adaptation? Absolutely not. But the changes that were made really drove home Frank Herbert’s original message and themes of the book, especially by enriching the Fremen culture. 

  This is a cinematic masterpiece that proves if a director and screenwriter know the source material well then they can adapt it (and adapt it amazingly) without needing to be 100% faithful.

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  Autumn Sonata 1978

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2024

  Don’t watch on Mothers Day. 

  Stellar acting, exhausting dialogue, and exceptional color palette. Felt like I was eavesdropping the whole time - there was enough to get a decent idea of these two women’s pasts but still vague enough that I couldn’t 100% understand or relate to them just through the evening’s dialogue. 

  This was my first Bergman film, and I wonder if I’ll rate this higher once I get more accustomed to his style.

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