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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  Successfully depicts how bad actors capture power in institutions (even the most onerously bureaucratic) and all the gossip, drama, and politicking of every large religious gathering I’ve attended

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  The Neon Demon 2016

  ★½ Watched 19 Jan 2025

  Would love to believe that this was deliberately pretty and dumb as a kind of meta-commentary but unfortunately I think it’s just another case of men not knowing how to write women. RIP David Lynch

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  Ring 1998

  ★★ Added

  I fell asleep. I feel like the bucket water process could have been better optimized. Fine.

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  Cats 2019

  ★★★★★ Added

  I have never had, and probably will never have again, such a strong emotional reaction to a film. Cats made me laugh and cry, it dragged me through the deepest depths of despair and the highest peaks of delight. I felt a childlike sense of joy and wonder akin to my first Christmas. I watched much of the movie through my fingers in an attempt to shield myself from its blinding brilliance and depravity. That this movie was made at…

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