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  • Aftermath

    ½

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★½

  • Mickey 17

    ★★★★

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  • Aftermath

    Aftermath

    ½

    Nothing meaningful to review. Just a bad script, execution, and acting.

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    ★★★★

    The power of doubt can lead us to a truth more profound than certainty. However, this movie didn’t make me doubt for a second that Ralph Fiennes was the man to embody the role of conclave leader. Waltzing through the religious leaders with a humble, incorruptible grace to show that those who state certainty should be doubted in their ambitions. When Fiennes finds that same ambition within himself, he wrestles with it. How can we doubt ourselves if we are…

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  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

    ★★★½

    What a beautiful and heartfelt movie about grief. As we join Bridget Jones in her varied life, I think parenting life suits her best! 

    How do you remember someone for being a beautiful father and husband and at the same time let them go. Especially, when your daughter wants to grap onto any notion of what feels familiar and your son tries to answer the existential question of what happens with someone when they die. Bridget is examined by all…

  • Mickey 17

    Mickey 17

    ★★★★

    “What is it like to die?” This movie keeps on asking the same question but frankly the main character, who is a clone and has died plenty, claims himself unknowing of its answer. Others keep on wanting him to say he is afraid, because otherwise it would just be cruel what they did to him, making him into an unfeeling expandable person. They need him to address his humanity, otherwise they are losing to something that has figured it out…

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