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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★ Watched 06 Mar 2025

  Bobby P is perfect and the first half of this film is very entertaining. It goes off the rails trying to handle too many issues: metempsychosis, colonization, wealth, politics, power.

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  The Last Showgirl 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Mar 2025

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Blink Twice 2024

  ★½ Watched 10 Sep 2024

  If I told you this movie was about Slater King, billionaire tech boy, who has resigned from his stressful role as CEO of a venture-backed startup to relax and recuperate on his private island that has been converted into an ominous palace for drug-filled, forget-me-not frolicking -- then I would have introduced this movie in a less ham-fisted way than it actually began.

  While there were some enjoyable moments (a short list that can be included entirely within a reasonable-length…

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  The Godfather 1972

  ★★★★★ Watched 05 Mar 2024 2

  We all know someone named "Michael" from Long Island who's like this.

  As with *Dune: Part 2* (and perhaps I am sensing the whisperings of some philosophy of film here), I was transfixed by the images on the screen. Coppola dazzled with shots that are wonderfully aesthetic. What is *Haystacks* compared to the wide shot of the family leaving the church after the baptism? What is *The Death of Marat* compared to Michael Corleone fleeing the restaurant in the Bronx?…

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