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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 20 Jan 2025

  A "Sideways" remake. But this time for Millennials, by Millennials.

  
  Jesse Eisenberg wrote/directed/starred in this, essentially playing a mirror reflection of himself. (With Kieran Culkin doing the same in his performance.) But it's more than just a movie predicated on stunt casting; it also explores themes such as: The Holocaust, current genocides, suicide attempts, and jealousy (in cascading order of intensity.)

  FWIW: Eisenberg does well setting his sights on making his first film as an independent, character-driven one, with such…

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  Serpico 1973

  ★★★½ Watched 18 Jan 2025

  The movie closes in on you the same way the world closed in on serpcio. Worth your time, esp in a world where corruption is not just tolerated but rewarded.

Popular reviews

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★★ Watched 11 Mar 2024

  Poor Things succeeds by putting the Odd in Odyssey. And it does so by manufacturing a world that abides by its own logic, remaining faithful to it at every turn. Much as Being John Malkovich is an exercise in absurdist logic, so is this. And it's just as emotionally affecting.

  The gist of it?-- imagine the Bride of Frankenstein had a baby with Edward Scissorhands, which was then nannied by Barbie and raised alongside the Little Prince. (With a dash…

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  Triangle of Sadness 2022

  ★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2023

  A movie with triangle in its title deserves to be discussed with three points:

  - it’s a black comedy predicated on deconstructing social hierarchy. Just as much as it puts on display the vapidness of lives spent pursuing money and money alone, it also manages to make you want to engage in the finer things. Only to time and again make those finer things soulless. Be it a high end restaurant or a yacht for the hyper-rich, they each become…