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  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Compelling and important subject matter, but this one didn't totally come together for me.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Fun Soderbergh banger with a tight 90-minute runtime.

Popular reviews

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  SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 19 Feb 2025 1

  Thought this was great! I went in knowing the music from Sly's classic run in the 60s and 70s, but didn't know much about the troubled and drug-addled decades that followed. Questlove's knowledge, skill, and rolodox make him uniquely suited to create a documentary like this. Even the standard talking head interviews here are superb. Too on the nose to have André 3000 and D'Angelo discuss a reclusive black musical genius? I don't know, but the results are insightful and entertaining.

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  Ellsworth Kelly: Fragments 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 02 Feb 2025

  This documentary starts with some pretty heavy early 90s PBS vibes and I worried it would be a slog, but before long we're alongside Ellsworth as he's walking through the streets of Paris telling us old stories. The best moments come when he is tracing some of the most iconic shapes in his work back to the objects that originally inspired them. A crushed soda can found in upstate New York, a large window at MoMa, an oddly shaped wall…

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