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  Nobody 2021

  ★★★ Watched 31 Jan 2022

  Bob carries this lumpy script like it’s a bag of cats in burlap. Pretty fun dumb stuff, + Christopher Lloyd.

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  Promising Young Woman 2020

  ★★★½ Watched 31 Jan 2022

  What I’ve seen called flaws are what I like about this movie: it’s direct, defiant, and unrepentant. A missile of a movie, inevitably tragic and unforgettable.

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  Collective 2019

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Jan 2021

  The best documentary I’ve seen in recent memory. Absolute wrencher. I can’t believe the access they managed. It’s ‘Spotlight’ without the sermonizing (‘Spotlight’ is fine!), ‘Page One’ without the dry, careful retellings. ‘Collective’ sometimes feels like accidental genius. These journalists didn’t even know what they were exposing until the terrible, overwhelming truth had been burned into their sleepless sockets. This movie says more with implication and innuendo than a thousand vox infographics ever could.

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  Minding the Gap 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Dec 2019

  A slippery flick, my favorite kind. I wasn’t sure where it was heading for the first half, but as the director slowly reveals his real reasons and we hurtle towards the present, the meditation of skating becomes something else entirely.  Pretty incredible he was able to pull this off.

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