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  Cake 2014

  ★★½ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Need Jennifer Aniston in another dramatic role asap

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  Joy 2015

  ★★ Rewatched 25 Jan 2025

  Jennifer Lawrence and a mostly strong ensemble carry this wildly uneven film, filled with multiple bizarre directorial choices that either fall flat or feel extremely out of place. After a pretty strong run of The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle, Joy is peak David O. Russell in all of the worst ways.

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  The Missing 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 06 Nov 2023

  There was nothing that could have prepared me for the gut punch that was Carl Joseph Papa’s The Missing. This is that special kind of film that rarely comes around and wraps you in a comforting embrace as we watch people navigate life in poignant, genuine moments. We watch as a first love blooms, as everyday conversations unfold, average days pass. So comforting are these moments throughout the film that the darker aspects of the plot knock us on our…

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