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Recent reviews

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  Contagion 2011

  ★★★½ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Watching this in 2025, post-COVID, feels like unboxing a time capsule we didn’t know we’d live through. Soderbergh’s clinical precision—down to the R0 calculations, paranoia, and vaccine race—mirrors 2020 so closely it’s almost smug. Bats? Lol. Wet markets? Lol. A globe-trotting Patient Zero? Lol. 

  The parallels are darkly funny: Winslet’s Dr. Mears tracing contacts like a CDC detective, Laurence Fishburne’s measured Fauci-esque calm, and the empty streets that scream 2020 lockdown vibes. Even the anti-vax grift lands, with Jude Law’s…

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  Outrage 2010

  ★★★★ Watched 19 Apr 2023

  Kitano is out to prove a methodical point reached in a more elegant, but less conclusive way in Johnnie To’s Election — gangsters, their absurdly rigid code of behavior and rules, and the arbitrary interpretation/re-interpretation of that code which is full of fatal and empty gestures. Machiavellian cinema.

Popular reviews

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  Tenet 2020

  ★★★★½ Watched 04 Sep 2020

  “Don’t try to understand it, feel it.”

  If anyone could give you any advice when entering the theater for this film, read the quote above. This was a hard film for me to rate after watching, the plot was so complex and I didn’t catch some of the dialogue so it was hard for me to make a decisive rating.

  Tenet, is easily the most ambitious film ever made by Christopher Nolan. With a massive budget of $200 million, Tenet is the…

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  L'Argent 1983

  ★★★★★ Watched 15 Jan 2021

  Could this be the most telling cinematic critique of capitalism ever? Few films build morals as obscure and listless as L’Argent. The composition of minimalist plans and formal decoupage create a controlled, thought-out environment, with no place for counterpoints, emotions, and desires. In the end, everything becomes mere objects, nothing really matters, like the counterfeit 500 francs. From there, this is a whole nihilistic deconstruction of capitalism, a constant apathy and an abrupt emptiness. The family scene, therefore, is almost a…