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  Love Lies Bleeding 2024

  ★★★★ Added

  Liked this way more than I expected. It's a really good balance of style and substance -- just enough style to be really interesting while not becoming too contrived or derivative.

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  The Taste of Things 2023

  ★★★★½ Added

  Obvious food porn praises aside, I really appreciated the uncynical male friendship vibes in this movie. Imagine having a bunch of bearded suit bros who got your back no matter what.

  Also- that sexy pear gives the peach from Call Me By Your Name a run for its money.

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  The Knickerbocker Buckaroo 1919

  ★★★★★ Added 4

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  Poor Things 2023

  ★★★ Added

  As with so many movies:
  Was digging the first half, and the second half lost me.

  Would have loved to see the version of this movie where the second half is her trying to become a scientist, or the version where she has to reckon with the bad person that she was in her previous life. All the interesting setup of the first half -- the stuff about the injustices of the world and her own complicity -- gets sidelined…

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