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  Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  Wowzas. Costner is cooking here. Please let us get all four chapters.

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  Companion 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 04 Mar 2025

  A fun lark. This kind of high concept piece often falters, but this thing never derails and gets it done in lean and mean fashion. Great performances all around. Aesthetically fairly tepid, but the film-craft is perfectly serviceable for the premise.

Popular reviews

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  Blonde 2022

  ★★★★★ Watched 27 Dec 2022 1

  It took me two sittings because life, but good lord this thing is fucking staggering. The discourse around “Blonde” is, frankly, laughable. It feels like the heir apparent to “Mulholland Dr.” Brash, ballsy, and experimental, the film is a dreamy subterfuge masquerading as biography. Of COURSE practically nothing in it actually ever happened. It’s based on a novel. But that’s beyond the point. It’s imagining the hellish existence of a life of nonstop anxiety and yearning. It’s about jagged, unnerving,…

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  Renfield 2023

  ★ Watched 02 Jan 2024

  Nope. I don’t know who this was made for, but yikes. Absolutely terrible.

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