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  Ocean's Eleven 2001

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Mar 2025

  Watched on an extremely turbulent, so-delayed-it-became-an-overnight flight because I needed a cinematic security blanket. While I have been apt to compare fun™ movies to a dependable diner cheeseburger (USA, USA), Ocean's Eleven is moreso a robust helping of chicken fettuccine Alfredo; I'm never gonna say no to it and it's always gonna leave me satisfied.

  Also: I couldn't help but think on this, watch #___, this is kinda the swansong of the pre-Patriot Act contemporary American narrative film, huh? [This thought may collapse under scrutiny, I've been awake for 24 hours and on planes/in transit for half of that]

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  Glory 1989

  ★★★ Rewatched 27 Feb 2025

  Is it like a "growing up in the northeastern US in the '90s"-specific thing to watch this movie a bunch in like middle school? Anyway it's simultaneously better and worse than I remember (full disclosure I watched it sans audio on a very turbulent transcontinental flight)

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  Presence 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 27 Jan 2025

  Strains slightly when it attempts to probe or push, but is also a movie in some ways preoccupied with the tension between exterior and interior (spatially, individually), the deceit of self/others. Felt very attuned to the look and feel, though slightly thrown by the score. Weirdly annoyed by people referring to the camera's vantage point as "first-person."

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  The Brutalist 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Jan 2025

  The 2025 winner of the award for excellence in perfunctory inclusion of addiction as a plot point (the Argo)

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