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  Magazine Dreams 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  AMC Hoffman. 

  This was a good movie, but it was a hard movie to watch. Jonathan Majors is remarkable: just witness his physical transformation and you can see an actor who put everything into this role. He plays this character with great care and skill. This film is billed more as a sports drama about someone who is basically driven to madness by his obsession to the sport, and it is that. But it’s also about someone who is profoundly…

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  The Others 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2025

  Alamo Drafthouse Crystal City. Terror Tuesday. Just Kidman (Alamo series). 

  I’ve been wanting to see this film for so long, and it did not disappoint. I did not find it scary, but it was suspenseful and a good psychological thriller. I knew going in that the film had a big twist, and I did figure out the twist pretty early on (though not what Nicole Kidman’s character did to her kids—that managed to surprise me). I would have loved to…

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  Lost Highway 1997

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Mar 2025

  Alamo Drafthouse Crystal City. In Dreams: Films of David Lynch (Alamo series)

  This was one of Lynch’s more “abstract” films, and I liked it. I just had to accept that the plot was more surreal than literal. It had a huge dose of noir, similar to a lot of other Lynch films. Bill Pullman (and Balthazar Getty) fits the bill as the protagonist inhabiting a dark and desolate world. In particular, this film has Patricia Arquette as a superb femme…

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  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Feb 2025

  AMC Tysons Corner. IMAX. 

  The film was ok… but not great. It felt a bit routine, and the plot and dialogue were dull. Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford were good though. But overall it just feels like the MCU isn’t treading new ground. Also, it’s frustrating that the MCU is so sprawling that these movies seem to be referencing TV shows that many moviegoers, including myself, have not watched and probably never will watch. It feels like you’re missing something,…

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