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  The Creep Tapes 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I see all of Creep as a discourse with the viewer about violence. The found footage format, along with characters constantly referring to the camera, feels confrontational. We are enjoying watching peachfuzz kill just as Mark's character enjoys killing, no matter how he explains it to himself.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  "We serve an ideal, we cannot always be ideal"

  This sentence, to me, is the essence of Conclave. It's a gorgeous election thriller set in the heart of the apostolic see, a setting which it takes full advantage of. First of all, the costuming and cinematography are the best I have seen in a long time, perhaps the best since The Tragedy Of Macbeth. The film looks beautiful, with realistic shots and wonderful shot progressions, which sometimes break chronological linearity,…

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  They/Them 2022

  ½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  I'm not one to overly rave about systemic issues, but this is an example of false representation by an oppressive system. Here, minority, this is what you should be like. Subversion is equated to violence here, embrace the liberal status quo

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  Foxcatcher 2014

  ★★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

   Foxcatcher is a very accurate commentary on America's corrupt upper class, at times it feels anachronistically pointed at Elon Musk, especially with the recent cheating-at-path-of-exile deal, so it is particularly sad that it's not a very good movie. It's a bit of an odd watch, really. It's clear that it was supposed to be an uncomfortable experience, but for most of the duration it felt just offbeat. I think this comes mostly from the editing choices, the wrestling is never…

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