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  Maestro 2023

  ½ Watched 14 Jan 2024

  No. A pretty movie and pretty good acting does not a good film make. This film couldn’t decide how arty it wanted to be and was frankly a slog.

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  The Philadelphia Story 1940

  ★★ Watched 28 Jan 2024

  I only have two takeaways. 1. Cate Blanchet really did an amazing job in The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn. Amazing. Now that I’ve seen this, I appreciate her performance even more. Spot on. 2. I liked Cate Blanchet as Katharine Hepburn much more than the annoying performance of the actual Katharine Hepburn. This movie may be a twist on the romantic comedy, but that doesn’t make it good. To me.

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  Branded to Kill 1967

  ★★★ Watched 08 Jan 2022

  This double crossing assassin action feast is half beautifully weird/silly/sexy-ish high octane fun and half a confusing poorly edited mess. I like it. My only Suzuki as of this writing, wondering if the rest of his catalog follows suite. Def influenced QT endlessly.

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  Phoenix 2014

  ★★★½ Watched 01 Jan 2022

  Undoubtably the overused word "Hitchcockian" will appear in most reviews of this film. I'm not sure, I haven't read them but look, it appears in this one! Great slow burn suspense tale that simmers with anxiety and frustration. Even if you're sick of Holocaust films, this one is worth a watch, especially for more patient viewers as the ending satisfies so enormously.

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