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Sing Sing 2023
"Sometimes, it's a little too hard on the heart."
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Hope.
A powerful thing; maybe the most powerful of things.
A thing that I find myself captured by in the afterglow of this wonderful, magical, special movie.
Life can put you in a box, both metaphorically and physically. It encourages you to define yourself by those four walls that envelop and trap you in their bare brutality. It, and its unfair, archaic systems, can chew you up and spit you…
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The Outrun 2024
"It never gets easy, only less hard."
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A heartbreaking, revealing, and uplifting look at addiction.
The magic of The Outrun, beyond its spectacular lead and stunning visuals, is its honest exploration of the disease's precursors. In real life, I'd imagine it to be incredibly difficult to maintain the requisite patience to truly help an alcoholic in recovery...but this movie almost implores you to understand how little an addict wants to be the way they are and how suffocatingly lonely…
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Hotel Chevalier 2007
"Are you running away from me?"
"I thought I already did."
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Crisply poignant.
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Black Bag 2025
"When you deny everything, when you lie about everything, how can this work?"
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First and foremost, this would've made $100M in 2006 with proper marketing.
You hire Fassbender to do a job in a flick like this and he does the damn job.
Insanely good exposition-without-exposition to kickoff, such a tight 90...just couldn't stick the landing like you'd really want it to.
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