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  Conclave 2024

  ★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  didn’t see it coming! Also, the music was excellent.

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  Platoon 1986

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  Not my favorite Vietnam War movie but definitely in the pantheon of war-movie-musts. Willem Defoe plays a stellar exemplar of the humane American soldier.

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  Prisoners 2013

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Jan 2025

  Solid mystery/thriller.  A couple loose ends but tense and mysterious from the jump.

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  Juror #2 2024

  ★★★ Watched 13 Jan 2025

  Toni Collette holds it down. The plot isn’t quite rich enough to make this a ‘great’ movie. It’s good. If you like entertaining broader ideas about American life, justice, democracy, this is a go for you.

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