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  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Nacho Libre
  • Your Name.
  • Black Panther

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

  • The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2

    ★★★★★

  • EuroTrip

    ★★★

  • Last Breath

    ★★★

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  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★½

    wow mark ruffalo was amazing at portaying a narcissistic political figure who will never admit he’s wrong even if its staring directly at him! imagine we had people like him in real life

    this movie also did a great job showing how we shouldn’t have egotistical dictators as our people in power, and how the world is better without people like them!

    only problem with this movie is society wasn’t stupid enough to fall for it again

  • The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2

    The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2

    ★★★★★

    life is WAY too short to not realize this is a MASTERPIECE. EFF IT 5 STARS

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  • A Real Pain

    A Real Pain

    ★★★★½

    i tend to gravitate towards movies that feel like they’re made with love and passion, and this movie is oozing with charm.

    you can feel the intent with every piece of dialogue, every shot, and the piano accompaniment after a joke that made me laugh, or an interaction that tears me up.

    it has painfully real themes of grief, pain, and burdens which brings attention to the idea of how we don’t realize how good we have it sometimes. 

    i’m…

  • The Brutalist

    The Brutalist

    ★★★★½

    I don’t mean to parrot those movies critics who mostly have the same thing to say about this movie, but I agree with them.

    The Brutalist comes out swinging with a near flawless part one that had me thinking it was going to be my favorite movie of this year. However, in that second part, I kept thinking to myself why did they do that? It had SO much potential to go a completely different direction, but they took it the…

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