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  Past Lives 2023

  ★★½ Watched 25 Aug 2023

  tepid.

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  Love Life 2022

  ★★ Watched 18 Oct 2023

  where the other 121 minutes had failed, the 2-minute dance succeeded. poignantly so. if only it weren't too little, too late.

Popular reviews

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  An Elephant Sitting Still 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Aug 2022

  beside ink wash hills, beneath
  blueberry bruise skies, the road
  loosens its low beam reins, and
  the bus stops
  somewhere. its riders alight
  amid the cold—wayside coats,
  neither here nor
  there. the boy kicks
  the shuttlecock he stole
  from the old men.
  the others loiter, or watch,
  or, longing to stretch
  their numbed legs, join
  the band playing
  in the headlights.
  then the trumpet,
  all clarion thunder,
  calls.

  it calls.

  it calls.

  it calls them to the choir...

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  Over the Moon 2020

  ½ Added

  If you gave this a...

  3.0: There's hope for you yet.

  3.5: I wouldn't stand there if I were you.

  4.0: You've gone off the deep end.

  4.5: You've hit rock bottom.

  5.0: ...what's it like being an amoeba?

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