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Conclave 2024
Delicious. Finally, some good fucking food.
Is it low-key Catholic propaganda? Yes, in the sense that the film seems to believe that there is something about the church that can be redeemed (hence the minus 0.5 star). But such beautiful Catholic propaganda. The cinematography! The shots! The framing! That one shot of the cigarette butts on the floor!
Ralph Fiennes!
Ralph Fiennes!
Ralph Fiennes!
An amazing meditation on faith, what it means to be faithful, what role doubt has in faith, power and faith, who gets to have power, and who deserves to wield it.
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Captain Fantastic 2016
I don't think I've watched a single good movie this year yet, unprecedented L
sanctimonious unrealistic wish-fulfillment movie pretends to a compromise in the end but the ending is weakened by its commitment to the ridiculous premise, that unschooling 6 kids in the woods with weird survivalist methods is mostly fine, actually, and they're so much superior to their peers, and they get into every single Ivy League school despite not knowing how to sit for a standardized test or…
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Licorice Pizza 2021
This is a story about how a lonely person can become a serial predator targeting children that for some reason was presented as a cute "romantic" story. It just doesn't hit, especially after several teachers from my former high school were exposed for grooming students and causing psychological damage that lasted for years, even decades.
My most carceral opinion is that anyone that liked this movie should be put on a watchlist.
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