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  Columbus 2017

  ★★ Added

  This film is one of the slowest burns I've ever watched. The first hour feels like three, and I struggled to get immersed or invested. It wasn't until the events of the final third that I began enjoying the film. While the end of the film is well-done and enjoyable, I don't think it makes up for how much of a drudge the rest of the film is.

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  Morocco 1930

  ★★½ Added

  Morocco is a love story between an entertainer and a soldier. Everyone chases the entertainer, but she longs only for the soldier, and the soldier feels something special about her. I'd say it's played out and cliched, but the film is from 1930, so I excuse it. The setting and the cinematography is well done, and the characters, outside from being largely 2-dimensional, are believable due to not being as exaggerated as often seen in other films from this time…

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  Young Mr. Lincoln 1939

  Watched 05 Feb 2020

  Young Mr. Lincoln is one of the goofier old films that I've seen stand up today. The humor is over the top, and much of the scene transitions kind of remind me of internet humor in the late 2010's. It's almost nonsensical, but retaining logical meaning and narrative, but it's absurd in subtle ways that leaves me wondering on standards of humor and entertainment in the 1930s.

  Abe is a bit of a Mary Sue (or Gary Stu, if you…

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