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  We Own This City 2022

  Watched 11 Sep 2024

  One of the great American war epics.

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  Michael Clayton 2007

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 09 Jan 2024

  Better every time

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  Patriot Games 1992

  ★★★ Watched 10 Feb 2023

  A perfectly mediocre mid-90s action movie. It’s geopolitics and it’s bad guys are…confusing? Half-baked? Why are we in Libya, again?

  Bumping a half star for two reasons, both of which have aged extremely well:

  1. Showing a surprisingly prescient glimpse into the post-9/11 surveillance era (the terrorist satellite files are literally code-named “PATRIOT,” a full 8 years before Bush)

  2. The completely unnerving drone kill scene, which contains approximately zero emotional attachment, a few stock “we got ‘em”-type lines, and…

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  Total Recall 1990

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Dec 2022

  Arnold runs the full gamut here - from comically cheesy “average joe” to transcendent action star in just over two hours

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