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  Knives Out 2019

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 11 Mar 2025

  All star cast, fantastic characters, elaborate plot twists, and somehow this all manages to feel like Clue in a movie. I LOVE IT

  Third rewatch and this one only ever only grows on me.

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  Cast Away 2000

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Finishing this movie on my 21st birthday was profound tbh.
  taking life for granted, love, seclusion, survival, determination, hope, and restoration. I would watch Tom Hank's character, Chuck Noland, live on this island for an eternity -- his ability to adapt and stay alive under the most dire circumstances was crafted so well for an ambitious and optimistic Fed-Ex manager just about to marry.

  I love this movie and I'll be coming back to it each birthday. A sweet reminder of how precious life is.

Popular reviews

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  Mystic River 2003

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Aug 2024

  Reviews on Set #2 

  Finally rewatched this gut wrenching thriller and all I can say is that anticipation isn’t numbing enough. 

  This is a perfect trio of a cast—Sean Penn as the bereaved mobster, Tom Robbin as a trauma-induced father, and Kevin Bacon as the devoted astrayed detective. (Both Penn and Robbin won an Oscar in their category). 

  I love the gritty, bleak look of this movie. It enhances inner-city Boston and meshes these characters into a world of monotony and no-escape. 

  P.S. I shook Marcia Harden’s hand the other day. 

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  Nocturnal Animals 2016

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jan 2025 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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