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Oppenheimer 2023
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Oppenheimer was well-paced and very thought provoking. I did a weekend Barbenheimer and, while I'd say I preferred Barbie, I've thought more about Oppenheimer since then. I greatly enjoyed the complex portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He certainly doesn't come off as particularly heroic. I somewhat feel like the sort of ur-plot of the film where RDJ's Lewis Strauss attempt's to take down Robert Oppenheimer distracts from what I find more interesting, which is Oppenheimer's ego-driven determination to build the A-bomb and his later in life opposition to the H-bomb.
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Barbie 2023
Barbie's as great as everybody says it is. What really struck me though was how much Ryan Gosling steals every scene he's in. Somewhat ironic, given the purported focus on Barbie, but perhaps that's the point. The only negative to this movie was that the ending felt a little bit off tone-wise from the rest of the movie. Easily forgivable, however, given how great the rest of the movie is.
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
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I feel like with a lot of artsy type movies like this my wife and I's reaction at the end is to say, "huh, that was interesting," and that's exactly what we said here. This feels like a movie where you take out of it what you bring into it. So for me, I felt like it was a commentary on the fundamental loneliness of rural living. My wife, a psychiatrist, felt that it was specifically about the lack of…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
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I watched the Extended Edition for this review, as all viewers should. The Lord of the Rings movies have always been some of my favorites and they remain as such upon revisitation. Everything about this movie is excellent. It's over three hours long and not a moment feels wasted. One thing I particularly noted this time around was how the Extended Edition builds the relationship between Aragorn and Boromir significantly, in a way that contextualizes Boromir's words before his death…
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