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  Babygirl 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 03 Jan 2025

  Ok.

  Ok.

  Wow.

  It was maybe the best movie about the exploration of kink that I've seen. For all the people who saw the Fifty Shades movies and started to explore some part of their sexuality as a result, this must be on the list of movies to watch. Seriously. I was one of those people. Yes, it's a pretty run of the mill affair film, but the way Romy allows herself to feel good in new ways so moving…

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Dec 2024

  It was so good. I loved it. One of Eggers' best thus far. His aesthetic works beautifully for this story. Everything from the music to the lighting to the long tracking shots throughout the film--everything. I loved it. Lily Rose Depp was really astonishing in the lead role. Her performance was so striking and the final sequence between Ellen and Orlok really moved me. Her poise in that moment was both beautiful and heartbreaking.

  Overall this is, of course, a…

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  All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Jan 2024

  Stirring and unflinching. It gave me chills, it made nauseous, it reduced me to tears and left me speechless. Truly one of the great anti-war stories ever told. Required viewing. What an achievement.

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  The Pale Blue Eye 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Oct 2023

  Moody, eerie, spooky, Christian Bale with a beautiful beard, E.A. Poe — it’s all of my favorite things in a thriller set in 19th century New York. Loved it very much.

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