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  Heretic 2024

  ★ Watched 27 Dec 2024

  worst impression of Jar Jar I've ever seen

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  Panic Room 2002

  ★★★½ Watched 25 Mar 2024

  Very big Fincher flex, the heir apparent of Hitchcock, a fantastic exercise not only in one-location storytelling but also in camouflaging his ambivalence on surveillance and technology in the plainness of a genre flick (interesting that he did this after Fight Club). Also a fun ride if you miss the turn of the millennium.

  Unfortunately I am too traumatized by Haneke's home invasions so I wasn't fully invested. Could have done without Jared Leto for example, he made it seem like the crack version of Home Alone, but then I get it.

Popular reviews

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★★ Watched 02 Mar 2024

  I thought it was a bit messy and weirdly edited. In the first film, not only the editing was pitch perfect, but Villeneuve also managed to somehow condense entire chapters in a couple of shots.

  This one really gave me a headache and I read the book series twice, so I knew exactly where they were. I'm waiting for the third part but I really think the book is impossible to adapt ... which makes me wonder how Kubrick would've…

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  Taxi Driver 1976

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 06 Feb 2024 1

  My quintessential go-to film. Reading Tarantino's chapter on it from Cinema Speculation gave this a whole new meaning.

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