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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★★ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  just saw this at the Egyptian Theater in beautiful sunny Hollywood California. It gave me the most wonderful headache — I am a different guy now.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Jan 2025

  My main complaint: Too short! This should’ve been an HBO miniseries and the more I think about it it’s so insane that it’s not.

  I’m so fascinated by the Catholic Church, probably because as a young Jewish 4th grader I went on a bunch of field trips to the California Missions and they scared the shit out of me so bad I had nightmares about them for years. And some people just grow up going to those fucking things every…

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  Everything Must Go 2010

  Watched 01 Jun 2022 1

  This movie is Dan in Real Life for people who’s Greenberg is Jeff Who Lives at Home

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  Casino 1995

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Sep 2024

  I watched this a couple weeks ago but just now felt like putting it on here!

  This is my favorite of Marty’s movies that are all basically this movie. I don’t mean they’re all the same movie in a bad way. What an insane achievement it is to make so many of these three hour crime parables that all parallel each other stylistically and thematically, but explore different corners of this world that seems to have fascinated Marty for his…

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