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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025 1

  Very restrained, unpretentious, honest movie. There’s a real dedication to realism on display here— you have this cousin to cousin relationship that has been weathered away by time and adulthood, that still remains fond, but is disconnected fundamentally in the way things become with distance and changed life circumstances. Jesse’s character is sanitized, terminally anxious, devoid of charisma, but disciplined and practical whereas Kulkin is emotional and honest but totally unable to perform the maintenance necessary to foster any kind…

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  Presence 2024

  ★★ Watched 28 Jan 2025

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  Ad Astra 2019

  ½ Watched 01 Oct 2019

  I saw myself in the face of that psycho space monkey. He was angry and yet sad like me

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  Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017

  ½ Watched 05 Nov 2019 1

  Forgot to rate this till now

  Killed my interest in an entire series that I’ve always loved, pretty lit

  
  This movie is definitely terrible, but it’s not terrible for the reasons that most of the flaccid “anti SJW” Reddit users say it is. The core idea here— to take Star Wars in a truly different direction, the expand the existing universe, to introduce shades of grey to its black and white moral framework— these are all commendable ideas that were…

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