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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Kinda five different premises all happening at once, which I think is both its greatest weakness and its greatest strength. Every 10 minutes brought a wrinkle to things I couldn't possibly expect, and the performances were ridiculous fun all around. Can't say that these scattered pieces added up to all that much in the end, but I'd always rather see something entirely singular than something predictable.

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  Warfare 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  On a technical level, this is basically perfect. The longest, tensest 90 minute period of my recent life. But as the tagline says, this is all based on memory, and memory comes with a bias.

  I'm honored to have seen this at an advanced screening. Getting perspective from Mendoza, Garland, and Poulter answered a lot of my questions about the intent of the film. Garland, whose work I've struggled with before, seems more interested in saying "look at this" and…

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  Once Upon a Time in the West 1968

  ★★★★½ Watched 05 Mar 2025

  Truly a monumental movie. The dollar takes over the world while the gunmen fade into the past. And women, left in a world where the men no longer know what to do, become the beacons of community, something that will be there long after their vengeance and business deals are done. This is a fable about the past 200 years of America, and it feels like it could be studied 1,000 years from now. And damn is it pretty cool, too.

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  The Consequences of "The Premiere of "The Making of "The Lumberjack's Daughter""" 2025

  Watched 10 Mar 2025

  I've decided that it's only fair to abstain from star-rating things I or my close friends have worked on. But I can't help but leave a review for this one, just to say that I think what was accomplished here is incredible. This all started with Joel Haver's 3-hour-film challenge, a 4-person, no-budget movie improvised entirely in an apartment. Those humble beginnings ballooned into a trilogy that none of us could've predicted, in which each film seems to ask two…

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