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  American Beauty 1999

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 Mar 2025

  Aha! Now I get it! DOGE and Elon Muskrat took their inspiration from Brad the Efficiency Expert. They even stole the five greatest contributions list. It all makes sense now.

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  I'm Not a Robot 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 02 Mar 2025

  The Dutch are into some weird shit

Popular reviews

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  TÁR 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2023

  Well, okay.

  There’s a lot to unpack here. The downfall of a highly respected orchestra conductor was very quick, which was a little surprising given the long runtime. It was 2 1/2 hours of character building and then five minutes of denouement. And the female big dog that went down here seemed neither to have too many enablers or defenders, unlike the men taken down in the #MeToo movement,

  One thing Lydia said stayed with me. It was in the…

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  Adventures in Babysitting 1987

  ★★★ Rewatched 31 Mar 2022

  Screwball kids movie, always good for a laugh. “Some guys are out to get us, / and Brenda’s probably dead!”

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