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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Jan 2025

  I am back to logging on here as I fear I have just witnessed greatness. Hands down one of the best films I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing. Christ!

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  American Fiction 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2024

  Needed some more time to fully bake (pacing wasn't great) and every plot point was highly predictable but still a solid satire. Reminded me of exactly two TV episodes: Indians on TV from Master of None and the art gallery segment from the first episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?

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  Hot Summer Nights 2017

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 Apr 2020 2

  I purposely avoided every rating I would come across this film and upon opening Letterboxd, all I can say is how disappointed I am. I'm not calling it a perfect film despite the score, but it's certainly a fantastic film (at least in my view).

  Besides some slight hiccups in the acting, I loved everything else. Perhaps how familiar it was to some of Edgar Wright's body of work had something to do with it. Also, any film that makes…

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  Barbie 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Jul 2023

  Pretty clever in its story-telling and visually stunning. Also really really funny, and has bangers after bangers. I just wished they didn't feel the need to explicitly verbalize as much as they did. The subtlety was exquisite; I wish it could've stayed as subtext.

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