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  Fargo 1996

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025 1

  The Minnesota accent remains one of the most repulsive developments across all of human language, right up there with the Toronto accent. Do better

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Keeps you on your toes. Most of the dialogue doesn’t feel natural at all, whether that’s just bad execution or a symptom of everyone in the movie being a the type of person who would dedicate their life to British intelligence. Don’t think I’ll be seeing it again, but I was entertained and surprised by the outcome.

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2024

  This movie way way way way better than I expected it to be. The things that were most important to nail in this movie (for me) were:
  -Casting
  -Popular/defying gravity
  -Not looking terrible

  My hopes were not super high for any of these but they really hit on all 3. Ariana and Cynthia were perfect for their roles, but even beyond that the casting was incredible (Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater all were so good in their…

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  The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Mar 2024

  picture this:

  you’ve worked your entire adult life to become a head honcho in the movie industry. some freak new zealander with little filmography comes to your office yapping about making a 3-movie adaptation of a beloved book series.

  you don’t want to hear it. there’s no way you give a job like that to such an unproven director! you tell him to screw off. actually, you change your mind. you tell him he can do a movie, but just…

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