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  Heretic 2024

  ★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  This film had a Dustier finish than Sting vs. Hogan. Perhaps worse, it was more overbooked than Cody Rhodes vs. Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 40 (read: not in a good way).

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  La Jetée 1962

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025

  A brilliantly beautiful exercise that, above all else, demonstrates that falling in love entails hoping and praying that the relationship becomes one’s main story, explaining why dates mean complete presence, detached from all else, safe.

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  Midsommar 2019

  ½ Watched 19 Jul 2019 2

  As pretty as it is, don’t let the visuals of Midsommar distract from single beat characters that walk around under the sun for an hour and a half desperate for plot with a disjointed dropping of such riveting side-plots as “hey, dude, that’s my thesis”. 

  Ari really wants to hotshot himself into some sort of art-horror canon, but he stumbles over the low-rent comedy of exploitation and tasteless vengeance against stale caricatures. Not to mention the fright-making out of the…

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  I Am Keiko 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Jun 2019

  Keiko Suzuki and Sion Sono gift the world with a prescient, touching, present, and (paradoxically) timeless collaboration in I Am Keiko. While Keiko chronicles the time elapsing until she turns 22 years old, she captures the spectrum of emotion found in the calm, near-ennui of a moment as a living-dying rate of change. The opening long shot acquaints us with Keiko head-on. The face-to-face teaches us patience and swaddles us in the sweet pacing of the film.

  Keiko treats each…

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