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  It Ends with Us 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  My wife wanted to watch this because she was aware of all the drama around the movie (was news to me - Blake Lively making herself a producer on the show, firing the costume designer and wearing her own outfits, and lawsuits around the promotion of the movie), but it ended up being a pretty decent movie honestly exploring the generational impact of domestic abuse. The flower shop depressed me, but I think that was maybe the point? Also the actress for Mona Lisa (from PandR) playing a more serious character was great to watch, still very funny.

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  Trap 2024

  ★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Interesting concept, but terrible execution. Josh Hartnett’s acting (and that of the girl that played his daughter) was the only saving grace for this movie. Otherwise it made no sense and was literally boring.

Popular reviews

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  A Complete Unknown 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2025 3

  For a music biopic/docu drama, this was so much better than I expected, mainly carried by Timothy Chalamet’s Oscar winning performance (“I have seen it”) as Bob Dylan. The movie drifts from one scene to the next with little to no exposition, focusing on the music instead of the drama, from composing late at night to performing at the Newport Folk Music Festival. Not a Dylan fan myself, but I found myself drawn in and locked to the screen for…

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  Dunkirk 2017

  ★★★★ Rewatched 20 Dec 2024 4

  Captures the hopelessness and randomness and vastness of war all at once in a sleek, wide, flowing story. Appreciated it more the second time. Cilian Murphy steals all the scenes he’s in, but Mark Rylance has my vote for best actor of this movie, enjoyed every minute of his “side character”.

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