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  Saltburn 2023

  ★½ Rewatched 07 Jan 2024

  There’s this scene where the character narrating says something like I don’t need to tell you what happened and then the movie proceeds to do so for like half an hour and I guess that sums it up.

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  The Holdovers 2023

  ★★★★ Rewatched 05 Jan 2024

  A charming and touching straightforward drama featuring a phenomenal breakthrough performance from Dominic Sessa.

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  Bauhaus: A New Era 2019

  ★★★ Added

  this is a clever exercise in how to make something out of the gaps in History, but it fumbles a bit in its attempt to make its protagonist a perfect feminist hero - to the point where it kind of throws Gunta Stölzl under the bus for no reason other than to prop Dörte up. it's also very superficial in its take on what are the bourgeois values the bauhaus tries to stick up against, often times reducing it to…

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  The Laureate 2021

  ★★★ Watched 22 Jan 2022

  this story had potential but it's ruined by safe, cliché choices. a very conventional movie about unconventional people.

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