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  Mickey 17 2025

  Watched 15 Mar 2025

  as much a meditation on genre as a genre film. the weird slaptstic "casino-era scorcese does 'the word for world is forest'" thing it's doing seems calculated to forestall the straightforward suspension of disbelief. it takes on too much, occasionally loses the thread, and is loopy and broad well in excess of what this subgenre of space-colonization story typically demands. this is why it's so politically and affectively accurate. that it still made me tear up a couple times is…

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  The Brutalist 2024

  Watched 25 Jan 2025

  What's this movie about

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  Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 24 Jul 2019

  The best film ever made about American masculinity

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  Beau Travail 1999

  ★★★★★ Added

  firs ttime i watched it was like "okay..?". second time (the next day) i was like "wow this was real good" and then i watched it a third time the next day and it was the best movie i'd ever seen in my life

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