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  Presence 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  I can't believe they got Dean from those Jubilee debates to be the red-pilled kid.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Tell me George Woodhouse is Bene Gesserit without telling me George Woodhouse is Bene Gesserit.

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  The Shape of Water 2017

  ★ Watched 02 Feb 2018

  Richard Jenkins: "It's not even human!"
  Eliza: (sign language): "If we don't help him, neither are we!"

  Like this exchange, there is nothing remotely subtle or clever in this film, and it seems to exist to showcase production design talent. This is likely the most stylistic effort I've ever seen put into a bad script. 

  Selling this love story is quite a tall task, so tall that Del Toro doesn't even bother trying; their "love" is a given. A woman…

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  Licorice Pizza 2021

  ★★ Watched 07 Nov 2021

  These Haim music videos are getting kind of obscure.

  PTA didn't treat me like a marionette like usual but it's almost definitely my fault considering the army that is amassing twirling their 5-star pizza dough in the air. I thought Alana was a bit better than Cooper, but neither had the charm you want from someone young you've never seen act in a movie before, like Honor Swinton Byrne in The Souvenir or pick anyone in Monos.

  This will be…

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