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  About Us But Not About Us 2022

  ★★ Watched 17 Apr 2024

  Nah, this ain't it.

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  Fast X 2023

  ★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2024

  It's boards review season and I need some mind-numbing entertainment.

  This is incredibly stupid even for franchise standards. And I'll watch the next one. I'm a part of the problem.

Popular reviews

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  Tony Takitani 2004

  ★★★★½ Watched 25 Jul 2020 4

  I had a phase back in college when I would gobble up Haruki Murakami stories by the dozen. This minimalist film moves like you would while reading his novels, punctuated by jazz and character oddities (e.g., Eiko's addiction to shopping). It builds upon Murakami's usual themes of ennui and loneliness through the desolate backdrop and Ryuichi Sakamoto's stellar soundtrack. And before you know it, the film is over, questions left unanswered. This is the best adaptation of a Murakami work—yes, I liked this more than Burning—that I've seen.

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  Jules and Jim 1962

  ★½ Watched 24 Apr 2020

  Yikes. A partner with that many red flags isn’t worth pursuing. I can’t watch this objectively because of how much I hated the character of Catherine. What was Truffaut going for here?

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