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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Ranked: Steven Soderbergh
  2025 Ranked
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  Truth. Loyalty. Devotion. All are imperative to a good marriage, but as expressed in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, are all complicated in the world of spies. George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender) and Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett) are an anomaly. In a trade built on deception, their marriage has stood strong. They, as with any of their counterparts, have things they cannot share with one another – “black bag” being the tradecraft short-hand…

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  The Monkey 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  2025 Ranked
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  “Everybody dies. Some of us peacefully and in our sleep, and some of us… horribly. And that’s life.”
  –Lois Shelburn (Tatiana Maslany)

  In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, The Monkey’s writer and director Osgood Perkins detailed his writing process and work in adapting Stephen King’s novella. He said, “So step one is always figuring out how it’s about me. How is this thing true for me?” In this case, he notes that, “[The monkey]…

Recent reviews

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  Riff Raff 2024

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  2025 Ranked
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  Director Dito Montiel’s Riff Raff has an insane cast. Bill Murray, Ed Harris, Jennifer Coolidge, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, and Lewis Pullman, are all in this quirky crime comedy. It is generally an unremarkable film, though it finds its groove as it goes along and mines its family drama for plenty of laughs amidst the chaos. The story is focused on two traveling hitmen (Murray and Davidson) trying to track down a man, Rocco (Pullman),…

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Mar 2025

  2025 Ranked
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  Bong Joon-ho bites off a lot in Mickey 17. A lot of the original Mickey7 novel is changed and in its place Bong goes heavy on political themes, socio-political commentary, inter-species relationships, colonialism, death, life, and class, as well as pointed and absurd humor. It is a film about all of us and, in that, an urgent cry to not just accept the conditions around us but to take a stand for what is right.…

Popular reviews

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  Once Upon a Time in America 1984

  ★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2017 12

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

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  La La Land 2016

  ★★★★★ Watched 16 Dec 2016 28

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