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  Sing Sing 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  Colman Domingo as Divine G is the crowing jewel of an incredible ensemble that gives it all to demonstrate the hardships of incarceration, going through different stages of repressed anger, desperation, and yearning.

  If you didn't know by now, most of the cast consists of members who passed through the Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program. Every one of them puts their heart and soul into their performance to demonstrate the importance of art as a mechanism for dealing with…

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  Nickel Boys 2024

  ★★★★ Rewatched 28 Feb 2025

  I watched this once and immediately ran it back.

  I wondered why they chose the first-person perspective, following something like Emmanuel Lubezki's work on "The Tree of Life" (in which producer Brad Pitt acted) or even Benoît Debie's work on "Enter the Void." But it all becomes clear near the end, and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's a creative risk that pays off by immersing us in the lives of our dear protagonists and comparing and contrasting…

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  Inland Empire 2006

  ★★★★ Watched 16 Jan 2025

  The strange world of David Lynch becomes less strange the more we become acquainted with his work what we perceive as indecipherable machinations start to become motifs because all of his art shares the same artistic vision, not as a cinematic universe but as parallel storylines that exist in the same ocean of consciousness.

  There is static.

  There is velvet.

  There is Julee Cruise.

  There is a horse and a well.

  There is Angelo Badalamenti.

  There is a monkey named…

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  American History X 1998

  ★★★ Watched 05 Dec 2024

  I didn't dislike this movie, but I don't think it works. To have Vinyard's ramblings about white supremacy uncontested and make him realize his mistakes through rape does not function adequately and leaves those ideas unresolved.

  Avery Brooks, as Bob Sweeney, working as an English teacher, principal, and history teacher in three years, is unintentionally funny. Plus, the scene in which he tells Murray that he has to withstand Danny's Mein Kampf essay is hilarious and tone-deaf. Imagine how wrong…

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