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Recent reviews

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  Killers of the Flower Moon 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I hadn’t known or heard anything about this true story. Incredibly well done, and though it was a lengthy movie it didn’t feel that way. It was a story that was long overdue in needing to be told.

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  Girls State 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  “There’s something in the air, and it’s politics.”

  Watching this doc in early 2025 hits different; I kept hearing girls talk about how there are so many opportunities for females in the USA, and I wondered if we talked to them now how that sentiment might change as we see women’s achievements being systematically erased from websites and historical records.

  Most of this movie made me cringe in a way I was just really glad not to witness it in…

Popular reviews

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  The Greatest Night in Pop 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Feb 2024 3

  I never really paid much attention to the song “We are the World;” I’ve always been more of a Band Aid (“Do They Know It’s Christmas”) girl. But this doc showed the extensive effort that went into creating and recording the USA for Africa song, and how it really came out better than the sum of its parts — which were some unbelievably amazing parts.

  So many interesting anecdotes, like Al Jarreau constantly celebrating, the room breaking out into a…

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  Civil War 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Apr 2024

  We’re American! 
  What kind of American are you?

  Whoa. Super tense throughout and it seemed so real — I kept wondering how they got those shots. The fact that I saw this in a theater probably contributed to how many times I jumped or audibly gasped, but it was definitely that kind of film from start to finish. No glamorized, choreographed action sequences here — these were ugly and harrowing scenes of war. And the fact that these events were…