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  The Creator 2023

  ★★★ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  Some stunning visual effects, but with everything going on right now I’m pretty sick of the whole “what if AI is more human than humans?” angle.

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  Ending up having a lovely conversation with the woman seated next to me during the intermission. She told me that her parents fled Hungary in 1957 and immigrated to the United States. Her father, previously a lawyer who had been disbarred in the communist regime, opened up a sausage store in Chicago. I thought of my own grandmother, who passed away at 98 this week, and had also come to this county in the 1960s and spent the rest of…

Popular reviews

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  The Blue Dildo 2012

  ½ Watched 17 Mar 2022

  Too scary

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  Alien: Romulus 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Aug 2024 2

  Caught this in a theater on vacation in Spain and forgot it was dubbed I can’t wait to get back to America lol. 

  I did end up having a lot of fun with this— does not skimp on the alien goop.