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  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Mar 2025

  Jesse James

  You ever count the stars? I can't ever get the same number, they keep changin' on me.

  Ed Miller:

  I don't even know what a star is, exactly...

  Jesse James:

   Well, your body knows. It’s your mind that forgot.

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  Black Bag 2025

  ★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Too boring too complicated.

  Left the theater for maybeee two minutes for a refill and was helplessly confused the rest of the way through.

Popular reviews

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  Eyes Wide Shut 1999

  ★★★★ Rewatched 19 Dec 2024 1

  Me and my future wife will never be vacationing within 100 miles of a naval base

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  Vertigo 1958

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 19 Feb 2025 4

  “Scene D’Amour” is an all at once kind of film score. 

  As a musical arrangement, it can be considered a mid-century triumph for the “killing me softly” and “bring ‘em to tears” movements of the late 1950s (probably?)

  Recording was done in London and Vienna, in early 1958, but that was not as originally planned. Because of the ongoing musicians strike in Los Angeles at the time, they had to take their orchestra to Europe (definitely)

  As the piece commences it politely…

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