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Recent reviews

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  Megalopolis 2024

  ★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  In Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola is extremely successful at doing whatever the hell he was trying to do.

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  The Jacket 2005

  ★★ Watched 08 Jul 2024

  I would say the central relationship in the movie hasn't aged well, but I can't imagine it being considered a good idea when it came out.

  If you know, you know.

Popular reviews

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  The Black Phone 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jun 2022 1

  7.6/10

  I was most impressed by how it used deft framing to squeeze a shit ton of tension out of a single room. Every second the boy is on the phone, I got the same feeling down my back as I get when I'm being chased in a dream or a video game.

  Also, the little sister is great in this!

  Solid solid movie! Good to watch in a filled theater, the audience liked it.

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  Glass Onion 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Nov 2022

  8/10

  I found this tweet by this fella @SmithWilsonian that summarized my thoughts perfectly...

  "GLASS ONION: The back half of this a crackling good mystery yarn. Pity that the first half was ghost-written/directed by post-2015 Adam McKay."

  I wasn't a fan of the first 45 minutes. I liked the idea of putting Blanc more prominently into our world, but the presentation wasn't very clever. Maybe that section will go down easier on the rewatch.

  Where Knives Out was a conventional…