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The French Connection 1971
felt basically the same way about this as i feel about dirty harry, although gene hackman pulls off the messy, insane cop thing better than clint eastwood. entertaining enough, i guess, but the grit gets stuck in my teeth. something very cruel about this genre of cop-in-a-cool-outfit-commits-police-brutality movie, even when trying to explore the greyer side of the law.
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Julius Caesar 1953
can’t rate this objectively it’s my favorite shakespeare play of all time
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Mickey 17 2025
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compelling performances and some nice satire, but the whole thing is bogged down by some unnecessary plot threads. the loan shark throughline is far too drawn out and temo’s prominence in the story is almost inexplicable. his usefulness as a foil for mickey is exhausted early in the film, and from then on his drug-dealer/coward performance becomes terribly boring. he exists mostly as a device to get mickey in and out of plot-relevant situations—the most boring possible role for a…
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Heretic 2024
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i wanted this to be good. i really, really wanted it to be good, because i think there’s a dearth of horror about missionaries, specifically mormon missionaries, confronting the problems of their religion and the people who have been harmed by missionary activity in particular and organized proselytizing religion more generally. mormonism in specific has significant political sway in the united states and is perhaps the most prolific modern missionary machine. there is so much potential for a well-crafted horror…
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