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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  As a D1 Nolan hater I was surprised how good of a time I had with Oppenheimer. For being so long it really doesn't dawdle, keeping a frantic pace that's helped a lot by the editor Jennifer Lane (also of Hereditary, weirdly great fit). Didn't even know that Nolan wrote it until after which is extra shocking. Sure, it's still a little Sorkin-y, a little over-pithy, but nowhere in the ballpark of earsore that Tenet was. (God, fuck Tenet.)

  Maybe…

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  Curse of the Man Who Sees UFOs 2016

  ★★½ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  Sympathetic and intimate look into the life of a neat guy. Threads the needle of being curious and charitable nicely, never talking down about him. Really like that aspect which makes this infinitely more palatable than "look how crazy this freak is" sensationalist horseshit.

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  The Menu 2022

  ½ Watched 01 Dec 2022

  Substanceless mash of different genre conventions that are all done half-heartedly enough to become atonal together. Felt like a writing workshop to hit tired story beats turned in late by a teenager. The performances were stilted and didn't mesh, and the score was like putting mayonnaise on oatmeal for flavor. The worst part of the movie, above all the other issues, is it does none of the work of bringing the characters or narrative to life and hopes and prays the audience MadLibses their way into a story they like.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025 1

  While Mickey 17 doesn't quite soar to the same heights as Parasite it's definitely still up in the atmosphere. Bong Joon Ho has enough talent that he can just make a romp retreading his same hangups and it's still a blast. I really appreciate the modern take on satire here. Things are so ridiculous that you have no choice but to match the unsubtlety, which this does excellently.

  The real prize is Robert Pattinson. Everyone around him is acting their…

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