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  The Electric State 2025

  ★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Can’t think of anything more appropriate to describe this movie than it ending with an instrumental version of Wonderwall. Absolutely depressing through and through.

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 07 Mar 2025

  Probably Bong’s worst, but still a wonderful time. Pattinson’s dual performance is delightful. The satire is funny as ever. Ruffalo delivers a hammy performance to rival Gyllenhall’s in Okja. 

  It’s a bit overlong and somewhat preachy at times, but hey, movies are back.

Popular reviews

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  Hit Man 2023

  ★★★½ Watched 08 Jun 2024

  Slightly undercooked but still immensely enjoyable.

  Also the second romantic comedy to come out within the span of a month about a something “man” or “guy” that does a job that normally wouldn’t lend itself to a romantic comedy. Hollywood is healing.

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  The Apprentice 2024

  ★★★ Watched 16 Oct 2024

  While it’s absolutely not bad - Sebastian Stan is very captivating and hits Trump perfectly, especially in the second half of the film (Strong and Bakalova also do very well), some of the shots are wonderful and the handheld, documentary-esque style fits better than I could have expected - I simply can’t understand why anybody, and Ali Abbasi especially, wanted to make this movie. It’s a compilation of stuff we already know about a real life figure we’ve frankly seen…

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