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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Robert Pattinson is a joy to watch, and the script is fun, but it does not pack the punch of Bong’s other films. Mickey 17 is as heavy-handed as Snowpiercer, but the form doesn’t support it as well as the latter. Parasite has gotta be incredibly hard to follow; I won’t hold this against him. It’s still good, though.

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  Possession 1981

  Watched 03 Mar 2025

  instantly an all-time favorite; wish I had watched this much earlier. it has so much going on, and going incredibly well. thematically very dense, it doesn’t matter much whether you’re able to parse what the film has to say right away—the performances are insane, and the cinematography by Bruno Nuytten is fucking mind-blowing. I love it.

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  Don't Look Up 2021

  Watched 11 Jan 2022

  I want an asteroid to obliterate this species twice as much now as I did before watching Don't Look Up

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  The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

  Watched 23 Jan 2023

  really gorgeous, with great performances across the cast. quite a pure black comedy; where a lot of what gets labelled 'black' is usually edgy or violent wish-fulfillment, Banshees' is the sort of black whose humor is very present but not ever enough to overpower the tragedy unfolding onscreen, never enough to make you comfortable. I won't watch it again anytime soon, but I have an inkling that the darkness it imprinted in my mind will eventually lure me back to feel those difficult feelings once more.

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