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  Knives Out 2019

  ★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  I liked this even a little more on my second viewing.

  I think knowing where it was headed (and that it wasn't a typical whodunnit) let me appreciate a lot of smaller aspects of the movie in a different regard on the rewatch.

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  BEEF 2023

  ★★★★½ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  So good from start to finish.

  If you get enjoyment out of seeing people make increasingly horrible decisions, shame on you. (But also definitely watch this.)

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  Trap 2024

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  Just a good dad trying to do his best in a tough situation.

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  Oppenheimer 2023

  ★★★ Watched 26 Sep 2024

  For me, this was definitely a whole is less than the sum of its parts movie.

  Technically well done, with lots of solid acting, I can see why others liked it more.

  Felt too biopic tropey throughout a good chunk of the movie. Was it setting up these tropes so it could then break them later? Perhaps, but that doesn't magically make the earlier parts more interesting.

  Maybe I already knew too much about the physics and the historical figures…

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