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  • Maestro

    ★★★★★

  • Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

    ★★★★★

  • Air

    ★★★

  • The Shining

    ★★★★

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  • Maestro

    Maestro

    ★★★★★

    I really liked this

  • Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

    Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

    ★★★★★

    Amazing that she didn’t sprain her ankle during this tour

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  • Jojo Rabbit

    Jojo Rabbit

    ½

    I’ll try to make this short but no promises. 

    What the movie does well: 
    1) Reminds us that it’s easy to think we’re right and still be wrong. Racism has a lot to do with ignorance, and it’s important for us to realize the biases we were born with. 
    2) Nothing else. 

    What the movie does poorly: 
    1) This movie, if it were done well, ought to read like a political comic. When done well, a comic actually reveals what’s…

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    ★★

    It’s week one of my “Holocaust in Film” independent study so today I watched Holocaust. Released in ‘78 and first shown on televisions across Germany in ‘79, the effects of this show were far from being insignificant. The Hollywood-produced series, oft considered to be a “soap opera” by prominent movie-makers and documentarians like Lanzmann and Reitz, globally normalized the use of the word “Holocaust” (in exchange for the Hebrew word, Shoah, which is still used today in Jewish communities). This show,…

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