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  The Defiant Ones 1958

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  They cast female Tony Curtis as Tony Curtis’ love interest

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025 2

  The grand, thundering score and incredible visuals could have been used for a more profound and impactful (and ideally true) story. They trick you into thinking that what you’re watching on the screen is much more important and groundbreaking than it actually is.

  I think that without these elements, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it and been as engaged by it as much as I was, which speaks to the surprisingly uninspired plot and tired message - American Dream! 😍🇺🇸🗽 But…

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Jan 2024 4

  Man nothing scares me more than yorgos lanthimos dance sequences please stop coming towards me while doing weird things with your limbs (that one dance in The Favourite reference)

  Me when they speak Portuguese: 😏
  Me when they speak French: 😏
  Me when they speak that crazy English dialogue: 🔥

  Yeah this was sick the ethereal backgrounds and crazy artificial set pieces make this so very interesting to look at (the city settings that look so goofy and compact but…

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  The Boy and the Heron 2023

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Jan 2024 4

  I’ve been told I should start 😐 actually 🥴 giving 🤢 my 🫢 thoughts 🤮 on this app. By more than one person. (Two).

  Obviously incredible stuff, unbelievably beautiful both in terms of animation and thematically and conceptually and all that. But I’m not gonna pretend like I knew what the hell was going on. This obviously has so many ideas and things to say, not that it wants the audience to understand, they’re not meant to. 

  *family ties trumpets…