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  Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Just a notch below my expectations. A slew of competent but forgettable gags showing leisurely obliviousness in the face of a not so distant backdrop of political unrest and societal change, all set to the same short recurring loop of elevator music. Progress stops at the beach. Spring Break forever.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  I unknowingly left and peed during arguably the most important scene which makes this rating, much like every character in the movie, suspect.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  To quote a cutting criticism I once received from a saxophone player onstage while I was running the soundboard in a bar, “Too much of everything, not enough of anything.”

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  Saturday Night 2024

  ★★★ Watched 14 Oct 2024 1

  Bill Murray has never been happier to have been waitlisted til Season 2.

  I hate everything about this as a premise, but if you really want to squeeze this into a functional feature film it actually would’ve been more concise AND breathable if the story started at Lorne moving into the Chateau Marmont in the months leading up.

  I do think Rachel Sennott and dual role Nicholas Braun are fun to watch, and Paul Rust as Paul Shaffer is comedy nerd candy. I went in ready to push it away and I left neutral, so that’s a feat. I think the misguided intentions were mostly good.