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  Flow 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  *Cat noises*

  *Excited barking*

  *Lemur screech*

  *Curious dog whine*

  *nature sounds*

  *booming orchestral sting*

  *meowing*

  *Quiet reflection*

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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Excellent performances are the standout aspect of the film. Ralph Fiennes in particular tells so much about the character with only his expressions that at least one scene was made significantly better than in the book by excising dialogue and allowing his acting to speak for itself.

  The setting is a nice change of pace for a thriller, and it's kinda retrospectively funny just how well this real-life scenario lends itself to this type of movie.

  The script is packed…

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  Suspiria 1977

  ★★★ Rewatched 12 Jan 2025

  An extremely visual movie. The lighting work is some of the best I've ever seen, and the movie has sequences spread out along the runtime that are exemplary in terms of horror filmmaking craftsmanship.

  The weak story and essentially blank-slate main characters help the film's mission statement as more of a surreal dreamlike experience than something entirely cohesive, but I personally felt the extreme disconnect means the only hooks the film had in my brain were through the setpieces, which,…

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