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  • Amadeus

    ★★★★

  • La Chimera

    ★★½

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    ★★½

  • Challengers

    ★★★★½

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  • Amadeus

    Amadeus

    ★★★★

    So rewatchable. Are we all, on some terrible level, Salieri?

  • La Chimera

    La Chimera

    ★★½

    Would have been more fun evening if you take a shot every time Arthur loses his shit

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  • Challengers

    Challengers

    ★★★★½

    The greatest sports movie since Invictus

  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★★★★

    This movie sticks with you like chewing gum, lingering on in your mind for a few days after your first viewing. I can’t think of another movie in more recent years that has explored the human heart with such honesty and tenderness as Maestro does. Not a biopic at all, but a case study of a relationship over a dozen or so scenes. By focusing on Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia, Bradley Cooper goes far beyond his initial subject…

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