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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  This was just a miss from me. It seemed confused with what it was trying to say. A mix between starship troopers, aliens and some screwball comedy. But I don’t think k it does any of these justice. I really thought there was something there with the reprinting and duplicate idea, but it never really engaged with these very interesting sci fi ideas. I just think it was a movie that didn’t know what it wanted to be or say.

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  Children of Men 2006

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Mar 2025

  The remdemtive quality of life 

  Even in a world plagued by the worst of humanity, the act of birth is redemptive. The way in which this film depicts this is so visceral. I could not help but cry during the climax of this film. I think often about the existential threats that humanity faces, but even in the face of that, the continuance of life is so transcendent. No film has really captured the state of emergency we live in matches with the unbridled optimism of life. If is difficult to truly state how much this film captures the state of life we live in today.

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 06 Jan 2025

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

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  Speed Racer 2008

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2025

  I think I will defend this movie as a masterpiece until the day I die. It reminds me of when I was a child and why I love sports. I think it is easily the greatest sports movie I have ever seen because it earnestly embraces the idea of sports as pure art and religion. The drive to drive. Pure willing. Yet, at the same time this earnestness and purity clashes with the reality of the settings in which sports…

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