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  Conclave 2024

  ★★ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  If you do a movie about the Catholic Church, you can assume the majority of your audience is gonna come in with a negative view of the subject. But if you proceed from there, you’re gonna be in trouble. HBO’s The Young Pope covered similar ground. It was caustic, funny, dark, and completely disinterested in confirming any preconceived notions the viewer may have had about the institution. It played its hand close to the chest and so I always felt…

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  Scent of a Woman 1992

  ★★★ Watched 23 Jan 2025

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