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  Black Mirror: Nosedive 2016

  Watched 26 Mar 2025

  Another thing I had to watch for a class. It was ok. Not sure I’m really into Black Mirrors typical episode structure and style of writing. It’s like The Substance but without any of the humor or body horror or gross out stuff that makes that movie entertaining throughout. Also the message is harder to connect to with this. I can live with movies and shows having these exaggerated hyper reality worlds that emphasize their societal commentary (like I just…

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  Adolescence 2025

  Watched 23 Mar 2025

  From best to worst episodes: 4,1,2,3

  I did really enjoy a lot to this, but it definitely feels flawed. Not just those slight issues, like the kid stumbling over his line in the third episode, that are gonna come from the gimmick of each episode being a singular shot, but also the writing was weak at times. I do think that the one-shot gimmick does harm the show, even when for the most part it’s done very interestingly with a…

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  Dune: Part Two 2024

  ★★½ Watched 25 Feb 2024 1

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  Challengers 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 22 Apr 2024

  There’s a lot of creative camera work and shots that I really loved seeing, a few nice long takes and at one point you get to see the tennis being played from the perspective of the ball. The performances were fantastic all around. A lot of the characters feelings at certain points aren’t explicit which makes the actors have to try and show things their character is hiding which they do well. The score was good, although I can definitely…