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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Very solid, great cinematography and acting, witty score, plot moves quickly. 

  Not like an all timer for me but easily one of the best of the year. 

  Some of the plot points felt random given the context of the film. Fiennes is as good as they come.

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  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024

  ★★ Watched 23 Dec 2024

  To be honest — didn’t finish it. Had about half an hour left after watching on Southwest flight, and wasn’t interested enough to finish. 

  I don’t know if I’ve ever really enjoyed a Winona Ryder performance. Just anxious and uninteresting to me. 

  Seeing Beetlejuice The Musical (and thoroughly enjoying it), I was hopeful. Ended up being pretty disappointing.

  For being the titular character, Keaton as Beetlejuice is severely underutilized. He’s the one highlight, and he isn’t even first or second in screen time for a character.

Popular reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★½ Watched 02 May 2024 4

  Honestly = wasted 2.5 hour flight from DFW to Cancun. 

  There’s a fine line between thought provoking / difficult to understand and ambiguous to the point of worthlessness. Slow moving to the point of boredom. Over complication and over simplification all together. 

  Amy Adams with the saddest two minute intro to a character ever?

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  Inside Out 2015

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jun 2024 2

  Good not great.

  When compared to the greats of Pixar, I personally don't think it holds a candle to them.

  Cute idea with fun parts, but couldn't find myself rooting for any of the characters - Sadness is the WOAT, Joy a type-A bully, Riley isn't even the main character, etc.

  Emma cried her eyes out with Bing Bong but felt he was pretty anticlimactic (don't tell anyone I said that).

  Also — Letterboxd added ads? 🤮

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